Real Coffee with Scott Adams - March 26, 2021


Episode 1325 Scott Adams: Biden's Press Conference Scorecard, I Announce Identifying as Black, The Cargo Ship Genitalia, More


Episode Stats

Length

1 hour

Words per Minute

148.78447

Word Count

8,966

Sentence Count

687

Misogynist Sentences

11

Hate Speech Sentences

40


Summary

A giant penis-shaped ship is stuck in the Suez canal and is trying to get through the world s most important shipping lane, but it's not getting through fast enough. Plus, Ted Lieu says he doesn't think people should be injected with bleach to get rid of coronavirus.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody. Come on in. Come on in. Yeah, it's time. It's time for Coffee with Scott Adams.
00:00:10.120 And aren't you glad it is? I know. I know. It's the best time of the day.
00:00:15.180 And let's make it special. Because you know what's special about today?
00:00:20.920 Well, there's a gigantic penis-shaped ship that is screwing the planet Earth at this moment.
00:00:34.020 Yeah, you're not going to get your toilet paper.
00:00:36.880 But we can make that all better with a simultaneous sip.
00:00:39.100 And all you need is a copper mug or glass, a tank of chalice, a stein, a canteen jug of glass, a vessel of any kind.
00:00:44.160 Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.
00:00:46.540 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine of the day, the thing that makes, what?
00:00:54.320 Yeah, everything. Everything better.
00:00:56.280 It's called the simultaneous sip. And you'll hear it around the world.
00:01:00.180 It happens now. Go.
00:01:06.300 I can feel that cargo ship starting to be dislodged.
00:01:13.840 One sip. That's all it took. Amazing.
00:01:16.540 Well, let's talk about all the news.
00:01:22.860 So first of all, let's talk about that giant cargo ship because it's the only fun thing that happened this week.
00:01:28.820 Now that you don't have Trump in the news so much,
00:01:32.540 you have to wait for a cargo ship to draw a giant penis in the ocean.
00:01:37.060 But we got it. We got that.
00:01:39.380 If you haven't watched the story,
00:01:40.600 apparently that cargo ship that is lodged in the Suez Canal,
00:01:45.480 prior to that,
00:01:47.220 the GPS tracking showed a path that looked suspiciously,
00:01:52.020 exactly like somebody drawing a cock and balls.
00:01:56.060 Now, some say it's a coincidence.
00:01:57.760 I say that if you get stuck in the Suez Canal right after you coincidentally drew a giant cock and balls,
00:02:08.100 the simulation is trying to tell us something.
00:02:10.100 I think it's telling us we're screwed.
00:02:14.740 Because, in a way, and not in a good way,
00:02:18.540 because I think the Suez Canal is sort of the planet's colon, if you know what I mean.
00:02:25.860 Sort of a tight passage.
00:02:28.540 See what I'm saying?
00:02:29.220 And this giant object is trying to penetrate that, but unsuccessfully so far.
00:02:39.940 So we'll see if that gets unloaded before all your toilet paper disappears.
00:02:44.880 Now here's a real simulation moment.
00:02:50.540 I'm not making this up.
00:02:53.100 I had planned this week to say,
00:02:56.660 can you believe that a year ago,
00:02:59.680 you know, a little less than a year ago,
00:03:01.240 we were worried about running out of toilet paper.
00:03:05.360 And I thought,
00:03:06.420 well, that's crazy.
00:03:08.100 You know, we'll figure it out.
00:03:09.300 We're not going to run out of toilet paper.
00:03:12.300 Well, here we are.
00:03:14.740 So,
00:03:15.300 Greta Thunberg,
00:03:18.280 you all know her,
00:03:20.340 how dare you?
00:03:22.640 She tweeted
00:03:23.640 an article and said,
00:03:25.280 China continues to build coal-fired plants
00:03:28.020 at a rate that outpaces the rest of the world combined.
00:03:32.360 Combined?
00:03:33.460 They're building more coal-powered plants
00:03:35.740 than all the rest of the world.
00:03:38.320 Combined.
00:03:41.580 More than three times what was brought in line everywhere else.
00:03:44.820 China looks to be wrecking the whole planet
00:03:49.200 with their coal plants.
00:03:55.480 But there doesn't seem to be anything we can do about it.
00:03:58.600 So I guess we're just going to watch that happen.
00:04:05.100 But I feel as though
00:04:06.660 they've got a real problem there, right?
00:04:08.940 It seems like the air pollution
00:04:10.620 is going to make them do something differently
00:04:13.420 pretty quickly.
00:04:14.980 Because what would be the point
00:04:16.620 of building a city you couldn't live in
00:04:18.240 because of the air?
00:04:20.040 But that's what they got.
00:04:22.460 More about China later.
00:04:25.000 So Ted Lieu,
00:04:26.640 he tweeted this
00:04:28.900 about the Biden press conference.
00:04:30.880 He said,
00:04:31.160 President Biden did a terrific job.
00:04:34.840 Totally objective.
00:04:36.120 He did a terrific job
00:04:37.560 at the press conference.
00:04:38.500 He explained the actions
00:04:40.000 that his administration took
00:04:41.080 to help the American people.
00:04:42.660 And he set bold new goals
00:04:44.320 to move our nation forward.
00:04:46.820 Well, that's pretty good.
00:04:48.120 Sounds pretty good.
00:04:49.040 But then he added to his tweet,
00:04:51.060 also,
00:04:51.540 he didn't tell people
00:04:52.380 to inject bleach
00:04:53.380 to get rid of the coronavirus.
00:04:56.700 Okay, that's not so good.
00:04:59.860 And I asked myself,
00:05:01.680 does Ted Lieu actually believe
00:05:03.760 the bleach drinking hoax
00:05:06.620 still?
00:05:08.820 Still?
00:05:09.920 I mean,
00:05:10.400 I kind of understand
00:05:11.700 how you could get Rupard
00:05:14.240 by it temporarily.
00:05:17.060 You all know
00:05:17.620 what being Rupard means?
00:05:19.580 It's named after Aaron Rupard at Vox.
00:05:21.900 If you get Rupard,
00:05:23.120 it means you take a video
00:05:24.540 out of context
00:05:25.360 to make it look different
00:05:26.700 than what really was there.
00:05:28.900 So the drinking bleach hoax
00:05:30.720 was caused by a Rupard.
00:05:32.240 They just took the middle
00:05:33.540 of what Trump said
00:05:34.560 and they lopped off
00:05:35.780 where he said
00:05:36.920 he was talking about light
00:05:38.040 and then they lopped off
00:05:39.620 the end where he clarified
00:05:40.900 he wasn't talking
00:05:41.660 about injections,
00:05:42.620 he was talking about,
00:05:43.520 you know, light.
00:05:45.880 So you just get rid of that
00:05:47.180 and then people like Ted Lieu
00:05:48.620 still believe
00:05:49.340 that there was something
00:05:51.060 about drinking bleach in there.
00:05:53.460 And even bleach
00:05:54.060 wasn't even mentioned
00:05:54.700 in that context.
00:05:56.300 So here's what
00:05:57.620 we can do about this.
00:06:00.420 Here's how you handle
00:06:02.480 the bleach drinking hoax.
00:06:04.420 Are you ready?
00:06:05.400 Number one,
00:06:06.760 the existence of the verb
00:06:09.940 to Rupar
00:06:10.880 turns it from a concept
00:06:14.160 that's hard to explain.
00:06:15.900 Well, you know,
00:06:16.580 they can make it look different
00:06:17.700 if you remove this editing
00:06:20.180 and blah, blah, blah.
00:06:21.260 But if you put a word on it,
00:06:23.500 just the way our brains
00:06:24.700 are organized,
00:06:25.580 as soon as it has its word
00:06:27.020 to Rupar,
00:06:29.140 R-U-P-A-R,
00:06:31.040 Rupar,
00:06:32.200 once you have a word for it,
00:06:35.360 people's brains interpret it
00:06:37.140 as more of a thing
00:06:39.060 because it's got a word.
00:06:41.820 Now, this is a persuasion trick
00:06:44.780 that I like to use a lot.
00:06:46.500 Anything that doesn't have a word,
00:06:48.480 you can't persuade.
00:06:49.980 It's just got to be boiled down
00:06:51.440 to a word
00:06:52.180 because words have their own
00:06:53.600 persuasive power.
00:06:54.520 They carry it with them.
00:06:56.000 So until it's a word,
00:06:57.460 yeah, like bork, exactly.
00:06:59.440 Somebody's using to bork or,
00:07:02.560 yeah.
00:07:04.080 So having the word helps.
00:07:06.440 Now when people say,
00:07:07.880 hey, he said drink bleach,
00:07:10.200 you say to them,
00:07:11.120 oh, dude, you got Rupard.
00:07:13.660 Dude, you got Rupard.
00:07:16.040 You got Rupard and bad.
00:07:18.300 Do you see how much more
00:07:19.200 persuasive that is?
00:07:20.600 Because if you say,
00:07:21.520 your facts are not
00:07:23.780 technically correct,
00:07:25.540 has that ever changed
00:07:27.180 anybody's mind?
00:07:29.140 No.
00:07:30.000 No, because the facts,
00:07:31.560 they'll just say the facts are wrong.
00:07:33.640 You'll say,
00:07:35.020 look,
00:07:35.720 I'm making a claim
00:07:36.720 about what he said.
00:07:38.320 Here's the video.
00:07:39.900 Here's the transcript.
00:07:41.520 I'm not making this up.
00:07:43.460 It says right here,
00:07:44.420 he's talking about light
00:07:45.440 in his own words.
00:07:46.760 You can see it on video.
00:07:47.700 Would that change anybody's mind
00:07:51.020 about what they saw?
00:07:53.760 You'd think so, right?
00:07:55.680 You'd think that if somebody
00:07:56.840 thought something was X
00:07:58.700 and you showed it
00:08:00.040 right to their face,
00:08:01.280 you let them hear it
00:08:02.540 and see it.
00:08:03.820 That they would then think,
00:08:05.100 oh, okay, not X.
00:08:07.720 I guess I got Rupard.
00:08:09.160 I didn't know it.
00:08:10.700 That will never happen
00:08:12.120 as long as you're alive.
00:08:14.460 And once somebody gets committed
00:08:15.780 to the argument,
00:08:17.520 cognitive dissonance
00:08:18.900 will be their path.
00:08:20.600 And I was watching,
00:08:21.400 you know,
00:08:22.480 some well-informed Twitter user
00:08:24.480 who may or may not be watching
00:08:26.060 this at the moment,
00:08:27.460 dismantle somebody
00:08:28.540 in the Twitter feed
00:08:30.500 who believed the hoax
00:08:32.120 and he was just quoting
00:08:33.640 the actual transcript
00:08:34.700 to just dismantle it.
00:08:36.440 Now, did the person then say,
00:08:38.480 oh, well,
00:08:39.140 thank you for clarifying.
00:08:40.920 Nope.
00:08:41.920 Nope.
00:08:43.060 Did not.
00:08:43.560 You just went into
00:08:46.340 a cognitive dissonance spiral
00:08:48.040 and just became
00:08:49.380 temporarily insane.
00:08:51.040 And that's what you'd expect.
00:08:52.520 That's exactly what
00:08:53.560 cognitive dissonance is.
00:08:55.560 It's like a weird
00:08:56.520 insanity hallucination
00:08:58.040 that pops up
00:08:58.900 when your self-image
00:09:01.020 doesn't match events.
00:09:03.720 So what this person
00:09:04.760 who was learning
00:09:06.080 that they had been Rupard,
00:09:09.280 which doesn't feel good, right?
00:09:10.840 If you've been bamboozled
00:09:13.620 or Rupard,
00:09:14.940 you think,
00:09:15.540 that's a little embarrassing
00:09:16.720 on me
00:09:17.420 because I was
00:09:19.520 a little gullible.
00:09:20.480 I got Rupard
00:09:21.260 a little too easily.
00:09:24.240 So go for
00:09:26.340 the embarrassment
00:09:27.220 of somebody being Rupard,
00:09:29.060 not the facts.
00:09:30.280 The facts won't work.
00:09:31.880 But here is my second suggestion
00:09:33.780 for getting rid of this.
00:09:34.820 If I could
00:09:36.920 be a reporter
00:09:38.440 to ask Ted Lieu
00:09:39.540 some questions,
00:09:40.420 I would ask him this.
00:09:41.980 Number one,
00:09:42.820 do you believe
00:09:43.320 that President Trump
00:09:44.200 recommended drinking bleach
00:09:45.860 to get rid of the coronavirus?
00:09:48.140 Presumably,
00:09:48.780 he would say yes.
00:09:49.980 Yes,
00:09:50.300 I do believe that.
00:09:52.320 Now,
00:09:53.280 rather than telling him
00:09:54.560 he got it wrong,
00:09:56.160 I would ask
00:09:56.740 the following question.
00:09:58.340 All right,
00:09:58.700 good.
00:09:58.960 So you believe
00:09:59.560 the drinking bleach story.
00:10:02.100 I'd like to get your position
00:10:03.460 on a few more things.
00:10:05.100 What is your position
00:10:06.000 on Bigfoot?
00:10:09.100 Now,
00:10:09.640 he would say,
00:10:10.380 oh,
00:10:10.560 you're not being serious now.
00:10:11.880 And I would look at him
00:10:12.620 and say,
00:10:12.960 what do you mean?
00:10:16.240 We're talking about
00:10:17.220 the drinking bleach thing.
00:10:18.800 This is just,
00:10:19.800 I'm trying to get some context.
00:10:21.840 I'm trying to understand
00:10:23.340 how many things
00:10:24.440 you believe are true.
00:10:25.960 Because then that would tell us
00:10:27.140 if you just believe everything
00:10:28.300 or this is just the one thing
00:10:30.860 you believe that's not true.
00:10:32.260 Because that's important.
00:10:34.160 Wouldn't you like to know
00:10:35.040 if somebody is fooled
00:10:35.900 by every hoax?
00:10:38.680 Or are they only fooled
00:10:39.860 by maybe this one?
00:10:40.740 Which wouldn't be so bad,
00:10:41.720 right?
00:10:41.920 Just one hoax.
00:10:42.940 We can all be taken in
00:10:44.200 by one hoax.
00:10:45.540 That's just normal.
00:10:47.040 And then he would resist
00:10:48.100 a little bit
00:10:48.660 and I'd say,
00:10:49.160 all right,
00:10:49.460 all right,
00:10:49.740 let's let that go.
00:10:51.900 My third question is,
00:10:54.180 what's your feeling
00:10:55.220 about the Loch Ness Monster?
00:10:58.040 And then he'd be like,
00:10:58.780 come on,
00:10:59.780 come on.
00:11:01.300 I need to take this seriously.
00:11:04.200 And I would say,
00:11:04.840 what do you mean?
00:11:07.140 What do you mean
00:11:07.800 taking it seriously?
00:11:08.620 I am taking it seriously.
00:11:10.980 We're talking about
00:11:11.920 all the hoaxes you believe.
00:11:13.380 I'm just trying to forget
00:11:14.240 your opinion on it.
00:11:16.320 How about the
00:11:17.160 fine people hoax, Ted?
00:11:19.040 Do you believe that one?
00:11:20.520 You do.
00:11:21.460 You do.
00:11:21.960 Okay.
00:11:22.840 All right.
00:11:24.020 And then you just go down
00:11:25.140 the list of hoaxes
00:11:26.420 and you see how many
00:11:27.120 he agrees with.
00:11:30.360 Trust me,
00:11:31.060 it's better than telling him
00:11:32.180 he's got his facts wrong.
00:11:34.320 All right.
00:11:37.960 So Georgia,
00:11:39.720 the governor has signed
00:11:40.980 this Georgia election bill.
00:11:42.420 It has,
00:11:43.960 it's a hundred page
00:11:44.720 election bill,
00:11:45.580 so there's lots of stuff
00:11:46.520 in it,
00:11:46.960 but it includes stuff
00:11:48.600 such as
00:11:49.720 including
00:11:50.660 requirement for photo ID,
00:11:53.480 even for mail-in ballots,
00:11:55.460 reducing early voting
00:11:56.680 for runoff elections,
00:11:58.360 and banning the distribution
00:11:59.540 of food and drinks
00:12:00.360 to people waiting in line.
00:12:02.100 I guess the theory there
00:12:03.120 is that that can influence
00:12:04.160 their vote somehow.
00:12:05.800 I don't see how.
00:12:07.480 By the time you're
00:12:08.180 standing in line,
00:12:09.900 are you still undecided?
00:12:11.200 Or is this just
00:12:14.420 to keep people
00:12:15.020 standing in line?
00:12:16.040 You give them food
00:12:16.700 and drink,
00:12:17.140 they'll stay there longer?
00:12:18.240 I don't know.
00:12:19.120 What's the thinking
00:12:19.920 on this?
00:12:20.860 So you and I
00:12:21.960 probably don't know
00:12:22.620 all the details
00:12:23.220 of why these
00:12:24.000 are even in the law.
00:12:25.740 The Democrats say
00:12:26.940 it's voter suppression.
00:12:30.400 Is it?
00:12:32.300 Are the Georgia laws
00:12:33.940 voter suppression?
00:12:35.980 Of course they are.
00:12:37.160 Of course they are.
00:12:38.660 Now,
00:12:39.200 they don't sell it
00:12:40.240 that way.
00:12:41.200 But of course it is.
00:12:43.620 Just as
00:12:44.540 the rules changes
00:12:46.120 for 2020
00:12:47.920 were,
00:12:49.880 let's just say
00:12:52.180 they were
00:12:52.720 politically motivated
00:12:54.060 as opposed to
00:12:55.360 fairness motivated.
00:12:57.680 They weren't so much
00:12:58.680 for the Republic,
00:12:59.420 they were for the Democrats.
00:13:01.560 So we have a situation
00:13:02.680 where,
00:13:03.540 in all likelihood,
00:13:04.460 I think most smart people
00:13:05.520 would say this is true,
00:13:07.100 that the 2020 election
00:13:08.740 was decided
00:13:09.600 was decided
00:13:09.620 largely
00:13:10.620 by the rule changes
00:13:13.040 that happened
00:13:14.380 before the election.
00:13:16.000 Wouldn't you say?
00:13:16.920 Because the rule changes
00:13:18.100 allowed, you know,
00:13:19.220 far more people
00:13:20.060 to vote
00:13:20.660 in ways
00:13:22.220 that people questioned.
00:13:23.660 But there were
00:13:24.480 more of them.
00:13:25.820 Lots more people
00:13:26.680 voted,
00:13:27.120 there's no doubt
00:13:27.660 about that.
00:13:28.160 And so some people
00:13:29.600 say that the rule changes
00:13:31.140 is what determined
00:13:32.060 who the president is,
00:13:33.480 as opposed to
00:13:34.320 the public.
00:13:35.860 Because the public
00:13:36.600 was the same public
00:13:37.620 before the rules
00:13:39.320 as after.
00:13:40.580 The public
00:13:41.300 didn't change.
00:13:42.520 It's just how
00:13:43.400 they count stuff
00:13:44.180 and who they can
00:13:45.240 get to the polls
00:13:46.040 and how easily
00:13:46.720 you vote.
00:13:47.620 The rule changes
00:13:49.040 decided who won.
00:13:50.040 So Georgia,
00:13:52.500 you know,
00:13:53.180 having a,
00:13:53.960 apparently a Republican
00:13:55.320 legislature,
00:13:58.520 they just decided
00:13:59.660 to win next time
00:14:00.620 by changing the rules.
00:14:02.260 So they just changed
00:14:03.420 the rules
00:14:03.860 in a different way.
00:14:06.540 Okay.
00:14:07.860 So they just changed
00:14:08.720 the rules
00:14:09.140 in a different way.
00:14:11.520 Would this be enough
00:14:12.680 to guarantee
00:14:13.260 that Republicans
00:14:14.580 do better
00:14:15.220 in the next
00:14:15.680 presidential election?
00:14:17.180 Well,
00:14:17.540 if it's just Georgia,
00:14:18.600 maybe that's not enough,
00:14:19.480 but will other states
00:14:20.660 follow?
00:14:22.780 Right?
00:14:23.700 Don't you think
00:14:24.240 other states
00:14:24.800 will follow?
00:14:26.080 And we may see
00:14:27.260 the Republicans
00:14:28.080 smartening up
00:14:29.660 and just making
00:14:30.880 rule changes
00:14:31.720 that are designed
00:14:32.460 for nothing
00:14:32.920 but winning elections.
00:14:34.700 Let's face it.
00:14:36.180 This is designed
00:14:37.300 to win elections.
00:14:38.400 It's not about
00:14:39.160 what's fair
00:14:40.080 or good.
00:14:40.640 Nobody cares about that.
00:14:42.080 Nobody in the government
00:14:42.980 cares about that.
00:14:43.880 They want to get
00:14:44.340 re-elected.
00:14:46.980 So I feel as though
00:14:48.800 given that
00:14:49.940 the 2020 election
00:14:50.980 was based entirely
00:14:52.120 on shenanigans
00:14:53.200 with rules,
00:14:55.060 that if Georgia
00:14:56.240 does some shenanigans
00:14:57.420 with rules,
00:14:58.860 they're playing
00:14:59.660 the same game.
00:15:01.180 I feel that's fair.
00:15:03.220 I don't think
00:15:03.980 the rules are fair
00:15:04.840 because fairness
00:15:06.460 isn't a real thing.
00:15:07.740 It's just subjective.
00:15:09.900 But it's a good strategy
00:15:11.560 and I think
00:15:12.400 it's perfectly
00:15:13.500 acceptable
00:15:14.240 in the context
00:15:15.340 of the rule changes
00:15:17.040 being the only thing
00:15:17.840 that determines
00:15:18.400 an election.
00:15:20.580 All right.
00:15:22.920 This is fun.
00:15:24.260 So Dominion,
00:15:25.480 the election
00:15:26.380 software,
00:15:29.520 do they have
00:15:29.880 hardware and software?
00:15:31.240 Is it just software?
00:15:32.520 But Dominion,
00:15:35.020 I guess it's both
00:15:35.760 hardware and software,
00:15:38.060 is suing Fox News
00:15:38.980 for $1.6 billion
00:15:40.180 because they say
00:15:41.920 that Fox
00:15:43.280 was claiming
00:15:43.940 that the Dominion
00:15:46.720 stuff was
00:15:47.280 intentionally rigged.
00:15:48.880 That was the claim.
00:15:50.000 There's no court
00:15:50.960 evidence of that
00:15:51.900 whatsoever.
00:15:53.380 No court proof.
00:15:55.940 No court has ruled
00:15:57.180 that Dominion
00:15:58.920 did anything wrong.
00:16:01.680 But here's
00:16:02.360 the interesting thing.
00:16:04.220 Have you ever
00:16:04.700 heard the phrase
00:16:05.420 a Pyrrhic victory?
00:16:08.080 I don't even know
00:16:08.620 if I'm pronouncing it right.
00:16:09.640 It might be
00:16:10.080 Pyrrhic.
00:16:11.140 It's spelled
00:16:12.440 P-Y-R-R-H-I-C.
00:16:16.260 Have you ever
00:16:16.540 heard that?
00:16:17.440 I'm teaching you
00:16:18.380 that because
00:16:19.000 you hear that
00:16:20.200 by people
00:16:21.940 talking on TV.
00:16:23.420 If somebody
00:16:24.220 uses this phrase,
00:16:25.780 they're bad
00:16:26.360 at talking on TV.
00:16:28.080 Because if you're
00:16:28.900 talking on TV,
00:16:29.840 you shouldn't
00:16:30.140 use phrases
00:16:30.780 that 75%
00:16:32.940 of the public
00:16:33.500 or more
00:16:33.960 have never heard of.
00:16:35.540 Right?
00:16:35.960 But I'm going
00:16:36.520 to teach you
00:16:37.220 so when you hear
00:16:38.280 it on TV next,
00:16:39.180 you'll know
00:16:39.440 what it means.
00:16:39.800 A Pyrrhic victory.
00:16:42.380 It's a historical
00:16:43.480 reference
00:16:44.120 to an army
00:16:45.980 that won
00:16:46.780 the battle,
00:16:48.060 but so many
00:16:48.960 of their soldiers
00:16:50.680 were injured
00:16:51.420 or killed
00:16:51.820 in the battle
00:16:52.320 that they ended
00:16:53.520 up losing
00:16:54.180 the war
00:16:54.800 because they
00:16:56.420 used up
00:16:56.880 too much
00:16:57.260 of their resources
00:16:57.900 winning a battle.
00:16:59.300 So the idea
00:17:00.140 here is
00:17:00.820 you can win
00:17:01.620 the battle,
00:17:02.360 but be careful
00:17:03.140 that that didn't
00:17:03.860 cost you the war.
00:17:04.900 It feels
00:17:07.380 like Dominion
00:17:08.300 might win
00:17:10.400 the battle
00:17:11.060 because
00:17:14.060 they might
00:17:15.340 prevail
00:17:15.800 in the court
00:17:16.360 case.
00:17:16.920 That's possible.
00:17:18.160 But what is
00:17:18.800 Fox's defense?
00:17:21.860 What do you
00:17:22.320 think?
00:17:23.400 Will Fox
00:17:24.160 use the
00:17:24.780 Sidney Powell
00:17:25.380 defense,
00:17:26.060 which is,
00:17:27.020 well,
00:17:27.180 you can't
00:17:27.560 take anything
00:17:28.080 we say
00:17:28.540 seriously.
00:17:31.120 It worked
00:17:31.720 for,
00:17:32.180 didn't it
00:17:32.460 work for
00:17:33.140 MSNBC
00:17:34.360 with,
00:17:36.080 what's her
00:17:36.820 name,
00:17:37.680 when she
00:17:38.160 got sued,
00:17:38.820 didn't she
00:17:39.260 actually win
00:17:39.960 her case
00:17:40.460 by saying
00:17:40.940 you shouldn't
00:17:41.320 take anything
00:17:41.800 I say
00:17:42.140 seriously
00:17:42.580 on a news
00:17:43.820 channel?
00:17:44.400 Because she's
00:17:45.080 an opinion
00:17:45.420 person,
00:17:46.080 Rachel Maddow,
00:17:47.020 right?
00:17:47.580 I believe
00:17:48.040 she used
00:17:48.420 that defense.
00:17:49.380 Sidney Powell
00:17:49.880 is going
00:17:50.160 to use
00:17:50.400 the defense.
00:17:51.420 I think
00:17:51.840 it'll work.
00:17:53.180 I think
00:17:53.540 it's a
00:17:53.920 solid defense.
00:17:55.440 But there's
00:17:55.880 another thing
00:17:56.420 that's about
00:17:56.960 to happen
00:17:57.540 that I don't
00:17:58.960 know if
00:17:59.780 Dominion has
00:18:00.960 calculated in.
00:18:02.460 Unless this
00:18:03.440 is actually
00:18:03.900 part of
00:18:04.240 their exit
00:18:04.740 plan to
00:18:05.280 leave the
00:18:05.640 business.
00:18:07.180 Because it
00:18:07.740 looks like
00:18:08.180 it could
00:18:08.500 be.
00:18:09.220 I'm not
00:18:09.580 saying that's
00:18:10.100 the case
00:18:10.560 because they'll
00:18:10.980 sue me.
00:18:11.800 I'm just
00:18:12.160 saying if you
00:18:12.600 look at it
00:18:13.020 from the
00:18:13.240 outside,
00:18:14.180 it looks
00:18:14.540 like a
00:18:14.920 company that
00:18:15.440 plans to
00:18:16.020 go out of
00:18:16.360 business,
00:18:16.920 but maybe
00:18:17.260 they can
00:18:17.580 win some
00:18:17.960 money on
00:18:18.340 the way
00:18:18.560 out.
00:18:19.740 Because
00:18:20.160 here's what's
00:18:20.680 going to
00:18:20.920 happen,
00:18:21.480 I think.
00:18:23.560 At least
00:18:24.200 it's what
00:18:24.580 would happen
00:18:25.200 if I were
00:18:25.940 the lawyers
00:18:27.500 and I had
00:18:28.220 at least the
00:18:29.100 freedom to
00:18:29.640 introduce this.
00:18:30.360 I would
00:18:32.020 put electronic
00:18:32.840 voting machines
00:18:33.620 on trial.
00:18:36.520 If you can
00:18:37.600 get away
00:18:37.960 with it.
00:18:38.480 I'm not
00:18:38.940 sure what
00:18:39.300 will be
00:18:39.620 allowed as
00:18:40.960 evidence here.
00:18:43.240 But Fox
00:18:44.560 News, if I
00:18:45.900 were them and
00:18:46.540 I were trying
00:18:46.920 to come up
00:18:47.400 with a
00:18:47.660 strategy, I
00:18:48.760 would try to
00:18:49.360 destroy the
00:18:50.340 idea of
00:18:51.000 electronic voting
00:18:51.960 no matter who
00:18:52.640 it is.
00:18:53.100 I wouldn't
00:18:54.240 even make
00:18:54.700 it about
00:18:55.140 Dominion.
00:18:56.880 I wouldn't
00:18:57.520 even say
00:18:58.200 this isn't
00:18:58.720 even really
00:18:59.140 about them.
00:19:00.080 You could
00:19:00.420 change the
00:19:00.860 name of
00:19:01.120 the company
00:19:01.560 and the
00:19:02.020 argument would
00:19:02.600 be exactly
00:19:03.140 the same.
00:19:04.180 Which is
00:19:04.820 that it's a
00:19:06.060 system that
00:19:06.600 isn't
00:19:06.920 transparent and
00:19:09.020 therefore
00:19:09.520 reasonable people
00:19:10.940 can have an
00:19:11.500 opinion that it
00:19:12.140 wasn't fair or
00:19:13.520 there were
00:19:14.040 issues with
00:19:14.500 it.
00:19:15.360 Now, if
00:19:16.920 they do
00:19:17.360 that, they
00:19:19.060 could probably
00:19:19.880 salt the
00:19:20.700 earth so
00:19:21.320 effectively that
00:19:23.000 our government
00:19:23.720 can no longer
00:19:24.480 support electronic
00:19:26.520 voting.
00:19:28.400 So one of the
00:19:29.400 things that might
00:19:29.980 come out of
00:19:30.440 this is the
00:19:31.660 death of
00:19:32.120 electronic voting
00:19:33.100 everywhere.
00:19:35.160 Now, I don't
00:19:35.980 know if Dominion
00:19:36.740 knows that
00:19:37.580 that's one of
00:19:38.160 the outcomes.
00:19:39.260 That the
00:19:39.840 entire market
00:19:40.780 for their
00:19:41.320 product could
00:19:42.840 disappear because
00:19:44.060 of this.
00:19:45.640 Now, as
00:19:46.880 high-powered as
00:19:47.700 Sidney Powell
00:19:48.300 is, when they
00:19:49.240 take on Sidney
00:19:49.960 Powell, they
00:19:50.960 are taking
00:19:51.360 on one
00:19:51.780 person.
00:19:53.380 Very high-skilled,
00:19:55.820 experienced
00:19:56.420 attorney.
00:19:58.060 That's pretty
00:19:58.720 dangerous by
00:19:59.360 itself, right?
00:20:00.100 You take on an
00:20:00.940 attorney at that
00:20:01.600 level, you'd
00:20:02.800 better have the
00:20:03.440 kill shot.
00:20:05.060 You go after the
00:20:05.960 king, you know
00:20:06.520 the saying, right?
00:20:07.220 You try to take
00:20:08.520 out the king, you
00:20:09.780 better finish the
00:20:10.720 job, because if
00:20:12.340 the king survives,
00:20:13.980 you're in a lot
00:20:14.780 of trouble for
00:20:15.780 trying to take
00:20:16.340 out the king.
00:20:16.880 Well, I think
00:20:19.420 that Dominion
00:20:20.020 is sort of
00:20:20.960 bigger than
00:20:22.120 or more
00:20:22.780 powerful than
00:20:23.540 Sidney Powell,
00:20:24.500 despite her
00:20:25.180 firepower, which
00:20:26.120 is considerable.
00:20:27.340 So that was
00:20:28.100 probably a good
00:20:28.680 play to take
00:20:29.340 her on.
00:20:30.900 But Fox
00:20:31.800 News is another
00:20:32.640 animal.
00:20:35.420 Fox News, I
00:20:37.320 don't think they
00:20:38.100 understand how
00:20:39.440 much firepower can
00:20:40.640 come from that
00:20:41.300 side of the
00:20:41.800 world.
00:20:42.680 I just don't
00:20:43.520 think they
00:20:43.980 understand what
00:20:44.660 they're getting
00:20:45.020 into.
00:20:45.400 I don't
00:20:45.580 know.
00:20:46.980 But I
00:20:48.600 would think
00:20:49.020 that the
00:20:49.460 Rupert Murdoch
00:20:50.600 group, especially
00:20:53.320 supported by
00:20:54.220 Fox News, who
00:20:55.780 are professional
00:20:56.960 communicators,
00:20:58.440 right?
00:20:59.220 They're sort of
00:20:59.900 the best
00:21:00.320 communicators in
00:21:02.260 the world.
00:21:03.360 You know, not
00:21:03.820 just because
00:21:04.440 they're right
00:21:04.960 leading, but
00:21:05.620 that's their
00:21:06.380 job.
00:21:07.220 They do it
00:21:07.700 professionally.
00:21:10.900 And between
00:21:11.900 what Fox News
00:21:12.960 will report
00:21:13.840 about this,
00:21:15.020 because they
00:21:15.980 can report
00:21:16.540 it, it's
00:21:17.360 news.
00:21:18.120 Even though
00:21:18.760 it's about
00:21:19.200 them, it's
00:21:20.640 still news, so
00:21:22.000 they can report
00:21:22.660 it.
00:21:23.520 What do you
00:21:23.940 think Fox
00:21:24.560 News is going
00:21:25.220 to start
00:21:25.560 running as
00:21:26.420 specials?
00:21:28.600 Just guessing
00:21:29.660 they're going
00:21:30.920 to run a lot
00:21:31.420 of specials
00:21:32.100 about how
00:21:32.540 voting machines
00:21:33.340 in general
00:21:34.380 are a really
00:21:36.380 big problem.
00:21:39.200 I've got a
00:21:40.040 feeling that
00:21:41.260 Rupert Murdoch is
00:21:42.520 going to end
00:21:43.280 electronic voting.
00:21:45.020 as a legal
00:21:46.300 defense,
00:21:46.860 basically.
00:21:47.620 Now, he
00:21:47.960 might lose
00:21:48.400 the case.
00:21:49.760 Fox News
00:21:50.200 might lose
00:21:50.700 this case,
00:21:52.040 but I think
00:21:52.700 he's going to
00:21:54.380 kneecap the
00:21:54.900 entire industry
00:21:55.760 as just part
00:21:56.980 of the natural
00:21:57.980 process of the
00:21:58.800 defense.
00:21:59.900 So we'll see.
00:22:01.800 Let's talk
00:22:02.520 about Biden's
00:22:03.120 press conference.
00:22:05.000 Before the
00:22:05.580 press conference,
00:22:06.300 I had tweeted
00:22:07.040 that I was
00:22:08.440 asking people
00:22:09.000 to write
00:22:09.480 humorous reviews
00:22:11.260 news of his
00:22:12.100 press conference
00:22:12.880 before it even
00:22:13.660 happened,
00:22:14.600 knowing in
00:22:15.200 advance that
00:22:15.860 the friendly
00:22:16.480 press would
00:22:17.120 say he did
00:22:18.360 incredibly well.
00:22:19.540 So let's see
00:22:20.000 how close we
00:22:20.580 got.
00:22:21.520 Here are some
00:22:22.020 of the actual
00:22:22.660 comments after
00:22:23.960 the press
00:22:24.380 conference.
00:22:25.280 This is from
00:22:25.820 the Drudge
00:22:26.800 Report,
00:22:28.100 who used to
00:22:29.260 be right-leaning,
00:22:30.080 but I guess
00:22:30.720 not so much
00:22:31.520 anymore.
00:22:32.420 It said,
00:22:33.080 Joe's no-drama
00:22:34.060 press conference,
00:22:35.680 chill style,
00:22:37.080 grand vision
00:22:37.780 for FDR
00:22:38.640 presidency,
00:22:40.040 art of the
00:22:40.580 impossible.
00:22:42.800 Not bad.
00:22:43.980 The Washington
00:22:44.400 Post says,
00:22:46.100 in an opinion
00:22:46.620 piece,
00:22:47.480 Biden excels
00:22:48.560 at his first
00:22:49.200 news conference,
00:22:50.480 the media
00:22:50.960 embarrasses
00:22:51.680 themselves.
00:22:53.520 And there
00:22:53.860 were other
00:22:54.220 glowing,
00:22:54.900 glowing reports,
00:22:56.140 Ted Luz,
00:22:56.680 for example.
00:22:57.860 So let me
00:22:58.300 give you my
00:22:58.940 opinion here.
00:23:00.920 It wasn't
00:23:01.460 bad.
00:23:02.580 It wasn't
00:23:02.980 bad.
00:23:03.860 Now, I
00:23:04.400 thought that he
00:23:05.940 would do okay.
00:23:07.020 Now, I'm only
00:23:07.720 going to talk
00:23:08.140 about performance
00:23:08.840 here.
00:23:09.680 If you're new
00:23:10.280 to my live
00:23:10.940 streams, this
00:23:12.560 is the thing
00:23:13.060 you need to
00:23:13.480 know.
00:23:14.020 I'm not
00:23:14.460 talking about
00:23:15.120 how accurate
00:23:16.660 he was with
00:23:17.340 facts, because
00:23:18.560 he didn't pass
00:23:19.240 the fact
00:23:19.620 checks.
00:23:20.580 Neither did
00:23:21.180 Trump.
00:23:22.620 Presidents
00:23:23.100 typically fail
00:23:24.220 the fact
00:23:24.680 checking at
00:23:25.240 press
00:23:25.460 conferences.
00:23:26.620 Biden did
00:23:27.240 too.
00:23:28.180 So how do I
00:23:29.640 hold that
00:23:30.040 against him?
00:23:31.280 I don't.
00:23:32.680 I don't.
00:23:33.640 The news
00:23:34.140 did what it
00:23:35.860 does.
00:23:36.260 Even CNN
00:23:36.900 fact-checked
00:23:37.580 him.
00:23:38.280 So how
00:23:38.860 much do I
00:23:39.420 care that
00:23:40.740 he got
00:23:41.020 some facts
00:23:41.620 wrong?
00:23:42.840 Not any
00:23:43.500 more than I
00:23:43.980 cared when
00:23:44.420 Trump got
00:23:44.880 some facts
00:23:45.340 wrong.
00:23:45.880 They all
00:23:46.400 do that.
00:23:47.060 That's what
00:23:47.460 the news
00:23:47.860 is for.
00:23:48.860 They're
00:23:49.080 supposed to
00:23:49.480 fact-check
00:23:49.960 him, and
00:23:50.260 they did.
00:23:50.860 Even CNN
00:23:51.480 fact-checked
00:23:52.160 him.
00:23:52.520 So don't
00:23:53.640 care about
00:23:54.020 that.
00:23:54.940 How about
00:23:55.440 his verbal
00:23:56.920 miscues, where
00:23:58.180 he would start
00:23:58.740 a sentence and
00:23:59.480 it would just
00:23:59.880 trail off to
00:24:00.680 nothing?
00:24:02.200 Pretty scary,
00:24:03.200 right?
00:24:03.380 This guy's
00:24:04.760 got the
00:24:05.340 nuclear codes,
00:24:06.460 and he's
00:24:07.180 the president
00:24:07.580 of the United
00:24:08.020 States, and
00:24:09.040 he can't
00:24:09.420 finish his
00:24:09.980 sentence without
00:24:10.940 running off into
00:24:11.920 bumbling confusion
00:24:13.040 and just saying,
00:24:13.760 ah, well,
00:24:14.180 that's enough.
00:24:15.760 Scary?
00:24:17.740 Nope.
00:24:18.920 It's not.
00:24:20.060 Because we're
00:24:20.760 used to it.
00:24:22.060 It was already
00:24:22.600 baked in.
00:24:23.820 In the same
00:24:24.680 way that much
00:24:26.220 of Trump's
00:24:26.900 personality very
00:24:28.820 quickly just
00:24:29.500 got baked
00:24:30.060 in, and
00:24:30.720 it no longer
00:24:31.500 became important
00:24:32.480 to your mind
00:24:33.240 anyway.
00:24:33.980 It was always
00:24:34.560 the same amount
00:24:35.240 of importance,
00:24:36.480 but the way
00:24:36.960 your mind
00:24:37.640 processes it
00:24:38.520 is if you're
00:24:39.420 used to it.
00:24:40.740 And we're
00:24:41.000 just sort of
00:24:41.540 used to it.
00:24:42.880 And we are
00:24:44.540 told that
00:24:45.980 Biden's little
00:24:47.280 verbal miscues
00:24:49.140 are nothing but
00:24:50.920 Joe Biden.
00:24:51.840 Yeah, he's
00:24:52.280 older, he's a
00:24:53.120 little less fast,
00:24:54.140 but it's not
00:24:54.920 that different
00:24:55.600 than he's
00:24:56.080 always been,
00:24:57.360 or at least
00:24:57.860 how he's been
00:24:58.500 for years.
00:24:59.660 So how much
00:25:00.500 do I hold
00:25:01.280 that against
00:25:01.820 him, that a
00:25:02.580 lot of his
00:25:03.020 sentences were
00:25:04.080 bumblingly,
00:25:06.340 incompetently
00:25:07.220 ended without
00:25:08.440 an ending?
00:25:09.840 Not much.
00:25:11.260 It's sort of
00:25:11.920 everything we
00:25:13.000 knew he was.
00:25:14.260 So I would
00:25:14.740 say that didn't
00:25:15.260 move the needle.
00:25:16.600 It may have
00:25:17.000 confirmed what
00:25:17.620 you thought,
00:25:18.640 but it didn't
00:25:19.020 move anything.
00:25:20.720 I doubt there
00:25:21.740 was any
00:25:22.360 Democrat who
00:25:23.760 watched that
00:25:24.280 and said for
00:25:24.800 the first time
00:25:25.480 ever, oh,
00:25:26.660 the way he
00:25:27.200 talks, now
00:25:28.460 I'm worried.
00:25:30.020 Do you
00:25:30.300 think any
00:25:30.720 Democrat did
00:25:31.340 that?
00:25:32.380 Probably not,
00:25:33.240 right?
00:25:33.620 But every
00:25:34.240 Republican said,
00:25:35.100 oh, that's
00:25:35.460 just what I
00:25:35.880 thought.
00:25:36.320 Look at him,
00:25:36.880 he can't
00:25:37.540 finish the
00:25:37.940 sentence.
00:25:38.700 So nobody's
00:25:39.500 mind was
00:25:39.960 changed by
00:25:41.200 that.
00:25:41.620 All right?
00:25:44.180 How do you feel
00:25:45.040 about the fact
00:25:45.600 that the news
00:25:46.240 is reporting
00:25:46.780 that the
00:25:47.440 questions were
00:25:48.540 known in
00:25:49.060 advance and
00:25:49.880 that he had
00:25:50.320 answers literally
00:25:51.840 written out in
00:25:52.700 notes, and
00:25:54.020 that he came
00:25:54.500 very close to
00:25:55.300 reading verbatim
00:25:56.300 his notes as
00:25:57.900 his answers to
00:25:58.540 the questions.
00:25:59.040 What do you
00:25:59.280 think of that?
00:26:01.160 Well, I have
00:26:02.580 a contrarian
00:26:04.240 view on that.
00:26:06.300 I'm one of
00:26:07.160 the people,
00:26:07.700 and you
00:26:08.100 probably did
00:26:08.560 too, who
00:26:09.180 praised
00:26:09.820 Kayleigh
00:26:10.760 McEnany for
00:26:11.680 being well
00:26:12.260 prepared and
00:26:13.500 having a
00:26:13.900 whole binder
00:26:14.460 that she
00:26:14.940 could refer
00:26:15.380 to so she
00:26:16.420 could be
00:26:17.020 really quick
00:26:17.640 and sharp
00:26:18.140 on all the
00:26:18.620 answers.
00:26:19.760 Now, if
00:26:20.240 we complimented
00:26:22.360 Kayleigh
00:26:22.660 McEnany for
00:26:24.200 being very
00:26:24.820 prepared and
00:26:25.520 organized and
00:26:26.340 having it
00:26:26.760 written down
00:26:27.360 so she
00:26:27.720 didn't miss
00:26:28.120 any good
00:26:28.520 points, why
00:26:30.240 isn't that the
00:26:30.780 same for
00:26:31.080 Biden?
00:26:32.520 You know, it's
00:26:33.060 being reported
00:26:33.700 by mostly
00:26:34.520 people on the
00:26:35.100 right that
00:26:36.340 this is a
00:26:37.060 sign of his
00:26:37.680 declining
00:26:38.180 capabilities,
00:26:39.300 etc.
00:26:39.680 And it
00:26:40.040 might be.
00:26:41.120 That's a
00:26:41.560 perfectly
00:26:41.880 reasonable
00:26:42.540 opinion.
00:26:43.780 It looks
00:26:44.200 exactly like
00:26:44.920 that, actually.
00:26:46.160 But at the
00:26:46.860 same time, he
00:26:48.380 was really
00:26:48.820 well prepared.
00:26:51.280 Right?
00:26:52.540 Now, you
00:26:53.460 could say that
00:26:54.040 there were
00:26:54.340 some questions
00:26:54.860 he didn't
00:26:55.300 answer.
00:26:56.020 Like, you
00:26:56.360 know, I
00:26:56.680 think there
00:26:56.980 was a gun
00:26:58.000 control answer
00:26:58.880 that he went
00:26:59.960 into immigration
00:27:00.680 or vice
00:27:01.280 versa.
00:27:02.080 And there
00:27:02.460 were things
00:27:02.760 he avoided.
00:27:03.720 But how
00:27:04.020 much do you
00:27:04.720 count against
00:27:07.000 a president
00:27:07.560 for avoiding
00:27:08.260 a direct
00:27:08.740 question?
00:27:09.980 Well, they
00:27:10.400 all do it.
00:27:11.280 Right?
00:27:11.900 So you
00:27:12.400 can't give
00:27:12.820 him a pass
00:27:13.540 for it, but
00:27:14.200 you would
00:27:14.620 say in
00:27:15.140 context, it's
00:27:17.360 pretty common
00:27:18.080 that they
00:27:18.440 avoid questions.
00:27:19.620 I would say
00:27:20.120 Trump probably
00:27:20.780 didn't do
00:27:21.320 that.
00:27:22.380 I think
00:27:22.800 Trump is
00:27:23.240 maybe the
00:27:23.660 only one
00:27:24.080 who would
00:27:24.320 answer a
00:27:24.900 question
00:27:25.240 without trying
00:27:27.180 to just
00:27:27.560 change the
00:27:28.020 topic.
00:27:28.980 Has anybody
00:27:29.460 else ever
00:27:29.920 done that?
00:27:31.380 Is Trump
00:27:31.900 the only
00:27:32.400 president we've
00:27:33.060 had who
00:27:33.440 would answer
00:27:33.900 a direct
00:27:34.300 question?
00:27:35.760 Maybe Obama
00:27:36.480 did, you
00:27:38.180 know, in
00:27:38.460 his own
00:27:38.800 way.
00:27:41.900 There might
00:27:42.580 have been
00:27:42.760 more.
00:27:43.960 But so
00:27:44.540 performance-wise,
00:27:45.940 he stayed
00:27:46.340 awake.
00:27:47.300 He didn't
00:27:47.680 say anything
00:27:49.340 that was
00:27:49.660 clearly
00:27:50.240 dementia.
00:27:51.220 It was
00:27:51.440 just more
00:27:51.960 of what
00:27:52.600 we expected
00:27:53.200 of him.
00:27:54.820 And he
00:27:55.380 looked like
00:27:55.800 he had
00:27:56.020 some
00:27:56.380 command
00:27:57.200 of the
00:27:57.520 facts.
00:27:59.800 Yeah, I
00:28:00.380 am being
00:28:00.720 generous.
00:28:01.640 So somebody
00:28:02.120 in the
00:28:02.320 comments says,
00:28:03.220 I'm being
00:28:03.660 too generous
00:28:04.360 to Biden.
00:28:05.520 I'm being
00:28:06.020 generous.
00:28:07.280 I don't
00:28:07.580 think I'm
00:28:07.900 being too
00:28:08.280 generous.
00:28:09.360 I'm trying
00:28:09.700 to use the
00:28:10.680 same amount
00:28:11.160 of generosity
00:28:11.780 I would
00:28:12.280 have used
00:28:12.880 had it
00:28:13.500 been Trump.
00:28:14.580 Right?
00:28:14.800 Just trying
00:28:15.140 to make
00:28:15.400 some kind
00:28:17.260 of a
00:28:17.460 comparison.
00:28:18.420 Now, I'll
00:28:18.820 tell you
00:28:19.140 that I
00:28:20.060 would say
00:28:20.400 it's very
00:28:20.860 clear that
00:28:21.500 Biden is
00:28:22.260 not making
00:28:23.160 the decisions.
00:28:24.580 It looks
00:28:24.940 pretty clear
00:28:25.520 that there's
00:28:26.200 a power
00:28:27.180 behind Biden.
00:28:28.460 But given
00:28:29.060 that they
00:28:29.480 prepared him
00:28:30.180 very well,
00:28:30.880 whoever they
00:28:31.360 are, I
00:28:32.720 feel at
00:28:33.180 least a
00:28:33.560 little bit
00:28:33.880 of confidence
00:28:34.400 that there
00:28:36.360 are actually
00:28:37.260 smart people
00:28:38.160 who are
00:28:38.900 in control.
00:28:39.840 We just
00:28:40.200 don't know
00:28:40.520 who they
00:28:40.800 are, which
00:28:41.880 is a
00:28:42.140 problem.
00:28:43.080 Wouldn't
00:28:43.340 you like to
00:28:43.800 know who's
00:28:44.120 in control?
00:28:45.400 I kind
00:28:46.040 of would.
00:28:47.200 Now, I was
00:28:47.720 trying to
00:28:48.040 think the
00:28:48.360 difference
00:28:48.720 between what
00:28:49.580 a Biden
00:28:50.300 meeting looks
00:28:51.720 like and
00:28:52.220 what a
00:28:52.600 Trump meeting
00:28:53.260 looks like.
00:28:54.160 We have
00:28:54.580 lots of
00:28:54.980 examples where
00:28:56.680 the advisors
00:28:57.480 said,
00:28:58.180 Trump, you've
00:28:58.700 got to do
00:28:59.180 X, and
00:29:00.340 then Trump
00:29:00.760 said, yeah,
00:29:01.400 but I'm
00:29:01.700 not going
00:29:02.140 to.
00:29:03.560 I'm going
00:29:04.060 to call
00:29:04.320 you an
00:29:04.660 idiot in
00:29:05.280 public, and
00:29:06.200 then I'm
00:29:06.480 going to do
00:29:06.700 the opposite
00:29:07.180 of what you
00:29:07.600 just recommended.
00:29:09.020 Hey, we
00:29:09.520 need to stay
00:29:10.100 in Afghanistan
00:29:10.700 with major
00:29:11.400 forces.
00:29:12.520 Yeah, I
00:29:13.040 hear what
00:29:13.340 you're saying.
00:29:13.840 We're not
00:29:14.160 going to do
00:29:14.540 that.
00:29:14.840 I'm going
00:29:15.520 to pull
00:29:15.740 people out
00:29:16.200 of Afghanistan.
00:29:17.360 Hey, we
00:29:17.880 can't possibly
00:29:18.480 have vaccinations
00:29:19.420 quickly.
00:29:21.760 Yeah, I
00:29:22.260 hear what
00:29:22.540 you're saying,
00:29:23.320 but you're
00:29:23.740 going to do
00:29:24.020 it anyway.
00:29:26.160 So how
00:29:26.820 many times
00:29:27.500 did Trump
00:29:28.140 tell his
00:29:28.940 experts that
00:29:29.940 he wasn't
00:29:30.400 going to
00:29:30.660 take their
00:29:31.020 advice?
00:29:32.240 I feel
00:29:32.780 like we've
00:29:33.200 got enough
00:29:33.640 examples of
00:29:34.340 that that
00:29:34.660 was fairly
00:29:35.140 common.
00:29:35.560 now, is
00:29:37.240 that the
00:29:37.560 president you
00:29:38.080 want?
00:29:39.220 Do you
00:29:39.500 want the
00:29:39.860 president who
00:29:40.720 goes against
00:29:42.100 the advice
00:29:42.740 of experts?
00:29:44.680 Or do you
00:29:45.360 want a
00:29:45.720 Biden-like
00:29:46.420 president who
00:29:47.220 tells you
00:29:47.860 directly he
00:29:48.420 will take
00:29:48.820 the advice
00:29:49.260 of experts?
00:29:50.300 And you
00:29:50.640 can see the
00:29:51.160 work of the
00:29:52.060 experts in
00:29:53.620 his presentation.
00:29:54.780 The experts
00:29:55.400 sort of packaged
00:29:56.880 up his
00:29:57.340 answers for
00:29:58.080 each topic,
00:30:00.040 and then he
00:30:00.420 presented it.
00:30:00.960 So he
00:30:01.700 basically was
00:30:02.320 a mouthpiece
00:30:03.140 for the
00:30:03.440 experts in
00:30:04.020 some way.
00:30:05.060 Did you see
00:30:05.520 any evidence
00:30:06.200 that Joe
00:30:07.020 Biden would
00:30:07.580 be capable
00:30:08.220 of telling
00:30:09.880 an expert
00:30:10.520 to go
00:30:11.100 pound salt?
00:30:13.200 Trump did
00:30:13.840 it every
00:30:14.140 day.
00:30:15.540 It was like
00:30:15.980 there probably
00:30:16.660 wasn't a day
00:30:17.540 that went by
00:30:18.080 when Trump
00:30:18.540 didn't call
00:30:19.220 bullshit on
00:30:19.880 an expert
00:30:20.340 and say,
00:30:21.300 yeah, I'm
00:30:21.520 not going to
00:30:21.860 do that.
00:30:22.260 I hear what
00:30:22.560 you're saying.
00:30:23.360 That's not
00:30:23.860 going to
00:30:24.040 happen.
00:30:25.560 Does Biden
00:30:26.020 ever do that?
00:30:27.800 And what do
00:30:28.420 you think about
00:30:28.900 that?
00:30:29.880 Which one's
00:30:30.480 the better
00:30:30.800 president?
00:30:32.040 Is the
00:30:32.700 better
00:30:32.940 president the
00:30:33.640 one who
00:30:33.940 calls bullshit
00:30:34.700 on the
00:30:35.180 experts?
00:30:36.260 Because if
00:30:36.980 you look at
00:30:37.540 Trump's record
00:30:38.540 of calling
00:30:39.900 bullshit on
00:30:40.780 experts, it's
00:30:42.780 really good.
00:30:44.240 Now, it's
00:30:44.860 not 100%.
00:30:45.880 It's not 100%.
00:30:47.160 I don't make
00:30:47.660 that claim.
00:30:48.740 But if you
00:30:49.160 were to look
00:30:49.480 at all the
00:30:50.400 things, you
00:30:51.380 know, don't
00:30:51.840 cherry pick,
00:30:52.860 just look at
00:30:53.460 all the things
00:30:54.420 that Trump
00:30:54.840 called bullshit
00:30:55.480 on, pretty
00:30:57.100 good record.
00:30:58.460 His hunches,
00:30:59.760 his lived
00:31:01.020 experience,
00:31:01.700 etc., do
00:31:03.020 give him
00:31:03.460 some kind
00:31:03.940 of an
00:31:04.220 advantage in
00:31:04.940 identifying
00:31:05.720 bullshit.
00:31:06.740 I think he
00:31:07.300 was very
00:31:08.060 good at it.
00:31:09.100 I don't
00:31:09.400 know if
00:31:09.640 Biden has
00:31:10.160 that.
00:31:10.720 He might,
00:31:11.640 but I
00:31:11.980 don't know.
00:31:12.240 So, here's
00:31:16.400 the thing
00:31:17.920 that's just
00:31:18.340 mind-blowing,
00:31:19.420 that Biden
00:31:19.860 is getting
00:31:20.360 basically a
00:31:21.160 pass on
00:31:21.640 this from
00:31:22.120 the friendly
00:31:22.880 side of
00:31:23.500 the media,
00:31:24.280 that when
00:31:24.980 he was
00:31:25.240 asked if
00:31:25.740 photographers
00:31:26.300 and the
00:31:27.400 press would
00:31:27.780 have access
00:31:28.380 to the
00:31:29.440 border-holding
00:31:30.920 facilities,
00:31:31.680 where we know
00:31:32.300 there's a bad
00:31:32.960 situation with
00:31:34.340 people overcrowded,
00:31:35.540 etc., and he
00:31:37.060 basically said
00:31:37.820 no.
00:31:39.340 He said,
00:31:39.980 we'll give you
00:31:40.420 access after we
00:31:41.380 fixed it, so
00:31:42.120 there's nothing
00:31:42.600 to see.
00:31:44.040 And he said
00:31:44.740 that right in
00:31:45.320 front of the
00:31:45.720 public, like
00:31:47.440 that was okay.
00:31:49.920 How's that
00:31:50.600 okay?
00:31:51.700 Even the
00:31:52.400 left was
00:31:52.900 saying, are
00:31:54.020 you serious?
00:31:55.780 That's not
00:31:56.500 okay.
00:31:57.740 That's not
00:31:58.440 okay for
00:31:58.880 anybody.
00:32:00.020 That's not
00:32:00.720 okay on the
00:32:01.340 right.
00:32:02.240 It's not
00:32:02.980 okay on the
00:32:03.660 left.
00:32:04.600 That's not
00:32:05.340 okay with
00:32:05.880 anybody.
00:32:07.220 Right?
00:32:08.400 But he just
00:32:09.220 got away with
00:32:09.760 that.
00:32:10.800 He's still
00:32:11.280 president, no
00:32:12.980 blowback
00:32:13.540 whatsoever, you
00:32:14.380 know, the
00:32:14.600 people on the
00:32:15.020 right or
00:32:15.400 blah, blah,
00:32:15.820 blah, but
00:32:16.260 it doesn't
00:32:16.560 matter.
00:32:17.500 It's just
00:32:17.980 words.
00:32:19.200 He actually
00:32:20.140 got away
00:32:20.940 with telling
00:32:22.680 you he
00:32:23.040 wasn't going
00:32:23.720 to give
00:32:24.060 you transparency
00:32:24.940 on, hold
00:32:25.960 on, a
00:32:27.980 human
00:32:28.560 crisis.
00:32:30.660 Now, he's
00:32:31.400 the guy who
00:32:31.860 cares the
00:32:32.460 most about,
00:32:34.160 you know,
00:32:34.540 that's his
00:32:35.340 brand, right?
00:32:36.040 He cares the
00:32:36.660 most about
00:32:37.800 the humanity
00:32:38.520 of the
00:32:39.100 actual migrant
00:32:40.000 sewer in a
00:32:40.600 bad situation
00:32:41.240 there.
00:32:42.020 And yet, he
00:32:42.520 won't let
00:32:42.940 the press
00:32:44.280 see the
00:32:45.380 bad situation.
00:32:49.340 It's
00:32:49.820 amazing that
00:32:50.440 he's getting
00:32:50.800 a pass on
00:32:51.380 this.
00:32:52.120 There's no
00:32:52.720 way that
00:32:53.060 Trump would
00:32:53.480 have.
00:32:56.340 So I
00:32:56.940 think that
00:32:57.240 was his
00:32:57.600 worst point
00:32:58.800 was the
00:32:59.700 immigration
00:33:00.760 stuff.
00:33:02.260 He was
00:33:03.060 boring.
00:33:05.120 Trump is
00:33:05.520 more interesting,
00:33:06.800 definitely.
00:33:07.180 And here's
00:33:10.920 another thing
00:33:11.360 I think he
00:33:11.760 got wrong.
00:33:12.860 On North
00:33:13.540 Korea, he
00:33:15.860 says that
00:33:16.580 basically they're
00:33:18.140 talking about
00:33:18.940 what to do
00:33:19.360 about it
00:33:19.880 because North
00:33:20.860 Korea fired
00:33:21.420 some missiles,
00:33:22.840 test missiles,
00:33:23.960 and Biden
00:33:26.860 is doing the
00:33:27.620 old thing
00:33:28.260 where you
00:33:28.580 say they
00:33:29.540 won't negotiate
00:33:30.340 with North
00:33:30.780 Korea unless
00:33:31.500 North Korea
00:33:32.080 commits to
00:33:33.640 negotiating toward
00:33:34.700 denuclearization.
00:33:36.760 Is that
00:33:37.380 going to
00:33:37.640 work?
00:33:39.040 Is that
00:33:39.660 going to
00:33:39.920 work?
00:33:40.860 Do you
00:33:41.140 think North
00:33:41.560 Korea is
00:33:41.980 going to
00:33:42.140 say, oh,
00:33:43.480 oh, well, I
00:33:44.980 didn't know
00:33:45.400 about this
00:33:45.820 whole denuclearizing
00:33:47.200 thing, yeah.
00:33:48.400 Well, now that
00:33:48.860 you mention it,
00:33:49.420 we'll just get
00:33:49.880 rid of our
00:33:50.280 nukes, and
00:33:50.920 then everything's
00:33:51.500 good, right?
00:33:52.420 How about
00:33:52.780 that?
00:33:53.700 I feel as
00:33:54.620 if Biden, and
00:33:56.540 really the way
00:33:57.420 we've always
00:33:57.880 treated North
00:33:58.380 Korea in the
00:33:58.740 past, is all
00:33:59.780 wrong, and
00:34:00.820 Trump was the
00:34:01.520 only one who
00:34:02.100 got that right.
00:34:02.860 And it goes
00:34:04.340 like this, North
00:34:06.180 Korea isn't
00:34:06.700 going to get
00:34:07.060 rid of their
00:34:07.400 nukes.
00:34:08.820 It's not
00:34:09.440 going to
00:34:09.620 happen.
00:34:11.080 I mean, even
00:34:11.740 if they, you
00:34:12.400 know, tone
00:34:12.860 down their
00:34:13.480 testing or
00:34:14.060 whatever, they're
00:34:14.520 still going to
00:34:14.820 have some
00:34:15.160 capacity that
00:34:16.020 they could ramp
00:34:17.720 up if they
00:34:18.200 had to.
00:34:18.960 The smarter
00:34:19.740 option is to
00:34:20.780 talk to North
00:34:21.440 Korea to talk
00:34:22.260 them out of
00:34:22.980 being our
00:34:23.420 enemy, and
00:34:24.920 just remove
00:34:25.700 the threat,
00:34:26.960 because we
00:34:27.320 don't have a
00:34:27.720 reason to
00:34:28.100 threaten them.
00:34:29.860 We have no
00:34:30.560 reason to do
00:34:32.140 anything bad
00:34:32.860 to North
00:34:33.300 Korea now
00:34:33.980 or ever, as
00:34:34.840 long as they
00:34:35.240 don't do bad
00:34:35.700 things to us.
00:34:36.580 And I think
00:34:37.260 that was the
00:34:37.960 Trump magic, that
00:34:40.220 he convinced
00:34:40.720 North Korea,
00:34:41.380 it's like, we're
00:34:42.320 not even in
00:34:42.900 your game.
00:34:44.300 We don't even
00:34:44.920 care about
00:34:45.420 you.
00:34:46.400 If you'd like
00:34:47.120 to make some
00:34:47.640 money, we
00:34:48.060 can help, but
00:34:49.240 that's the only
00:34:49.900 thing we care
00:34:50.560 about you, is
00:34:51.980 if you'd like to
00:34:52.620 make some money
00:34:53.100 with us, we
00:34:53.640 can help some
00:34:54.620 investments and
00:34:55.380 stuff.
00:34:56.000 Now, it's
00:34:56.500 going to be
00:34:56.740 hard to do if
00:34:57.820 you're on war
00:34:58.540 footing with
00:34:59.120 South Korea, but
00:35:00.740 that's your
00:35:01.120 business.
00:35:01.500 Our business
00:35:02.320 is we'd like
00:35:02.880 to do some
00:35:03.260 business with
00:35:03.740 you.
00:35:03.920 We don't
00:35:04.300 want to
00:35:04.540 attack you.
00:35:05.820 And what
00:35:06.240 happened?
00:35:06.860 North Korea
00:35:07.460 seems way less
00:35:09.060 aggressive or did
00:35:09.920 under Trump.
00:35:11.460 Now, that's
00:35:12.060 probably the best
00:35:12.700 you can get, but
00:35:13.500 I would take it
00:35:14.040 to another level.
00:35:15.260 I would tell
00:35:15.700 North Korea, you
00:35:16.500 know, we don't
00:35:17.780 think you should
00:35:18.340 build nukes and
00:35:19.200 aim them in our
00:35:20.220 direction, but we
00:35:22.620 can't make any
00:35:23.220 promises about
00:35:23.960 China.
00:35:25.440 If I were you
00:35:26.360 and I were that
00:35:26.960 close to China, you
00:35:28.660 might want to keep
00:35:29.220 those nukes, because
00:35:30.160 you're going to need
00:35:30.720 to aim them at
00:35:31.600 Beijing.
00:35:33.540 Because China is a
00:35:34.880 real threat to
00:35:35.620 North Korea, don't
00:35:36.840 you think?
00:35:37.900 Because China has
00:35:39.460 absorbed Hong Kong,
00:35:41.020 as was their
00:35:42.040 legal right, more
00:35:44.620 or less.
00:35:45.080 I mean, they may
00:35:45.760 have taken it too
00:35:46.360 far.
00:35:47.720 They probably will
00:35:49.200 absorb Taiwan within
00:35:51.380 the next 10 years,
00:35:52.520 just because it's
00:35:53.160 close and because
00:35:53.980 they can.
00:35:54.440 does North Korea
00:35:56.920 think that America
00:35:57.960 is a bigger risk
00:35:59.020 than North Korea
00:36:00.660 right on the border
00:36:01.400 of China?
00:36:02.600 I don't think so.
00:36:04.360 I think China is a
00:36:05.840 way bigger risk to
00:36:06.920 North Korea.
00:36:07.820 And the way China
00:36:08.700 would take over would
00:36:09.640 be, you know,
00:36:10.300 infiltrating and, you
00:36:11.680 know, buying and
00:36:12.440 bribing and, you
00:36:13.940 know, doing their
00:36:14.880 soft long-term
00:36:16.280 influence thing to
00:36:17.420 control North Korea.
00:36:19.320 There's no way that
00:36:21.400 Kim Jong-un should be
00:36:22.780 on their team.
00:36:24.500 He should be on
00:36:25.620 our team.
00:36:27.540 And then you're
00:36:28.440 fine.
00:36:29.820 Because people don't
00:36:31.160 nuke their own
00:36:31.860 team.
00:36:33.400 He should be on
00:36:34.580 our team against
00:36:36.600 China.
00:36:37.440 China is the threat
00:36:38.340 to the world.
00:36:39.300 It's got to be a
00:36:40.040 threat to North Korea.
00:36:41.460 Now, they can't
00:36:42.600 treat North Korea
00:36:43.380 like a threat.
00:36:44.060 They can't treat
00:36:44.840 China like a threat
00:36:45.640 because they're still
00:36:46.700 dealing with them.
00:36:47.360 But realistically,
00:36:49.740 from a long-term
00:36:50.840 military perspective,
00:36:53.500 North Korea and
00:36:54.540 China are the
00:36:55.720 problem with each
00:36:56.480 other.
00:36:56.800 We're not.
00:36:57.920 So I would make
00:36:58.740 that case.
00:36:59.300 I think Biden's
00:36:59.860 got that wrong.
00:37:01.280 All right.
00:37:01.480 So overall, if you
00:37:02.520 said Biden had a
00:37:04.860 very low bar for
00:37:06.000 expectations, I would
00:37:07.120 say he exceeded
00:37:07.820 it.
00:37:08.880 Is that fair?
00:37:10.100 The bar was so
00:37:11.100 low that he
00:37:12.540 exceeded it fairly
00:37:13.460 easily.
00:37:14.400 So I would give
00:37:15.080 him a good mark on
00:37:15.960 his performance.
00:37:16.680 It's performance.
00:37:18.480 He gets the
00:37:19.380 usual failing grade
00:37:20.500 on accuracy.
00:37:21.540 They all do.
00:37:22.660 He gets a bad
00:37:24.500 grade on handling
00:37:25.520 the border, bad
00:37:26.500 grade on handling
00:37:27.220 North Korea.
00:37:28.480 Didn't really
00:37:29.080 answer a lot of
00:37:29.780 questions.
00:37:30.980 But he didn't
00:37:32.080 need to accomplish
00:37:32.760 any of those
00:37:33.560 things I'm
00:37:34.100 criticizing.
00:37:35.300 So if you were
00:37:36.020 to make a list
00:37:36.600 of all the things
00:37:37.200 that don't matter,
00:37:38.920 he didn't do
00:37:39.480 them very well.
00:37:41.180 All right?
00:37:42.140 Being accurate,
00:37:43.140 it doesn't really
00:37:43.720 matter.
00:37:44.020 And he didn't
00:37:44.860 do it very
00:37:45.260 well.
00:37:46.220 But it doesn't
00:37:46.660 matter.
00:37:47.820 What did
00:37:48.260 matter?
00:37:48.960 That he didn't
00:37:50.440 decompose in
00:37:51.920 front of the
00:37:52.260 public.
00:37:52.780 What did
00:37:53.200 matter is that
00:37:54.400 he had details
00:37:55.300 on all of the
00:37:56.800 questions.
00:37:57.860 What did
00:37:58.520 matter is that
00:37:59.260 he spoke with
00:37:59.920 some authority,
00:38:00.880 active presidential.
00:38:02.280 I think he
00:38:02.860 pulled it off.
00:38:04.240 I think he
00:38:04.700 pulled it off.
00:38:07.280 All right,
00:38:07.820 but certainly
00:38:09.240 not giving him
00:38:09.880 a total pass.
00:38:10.560 Now,
00:38:11.300 interestingly,
00:38:12.300 two left-leaning
00:38:14.140 journalists did
00:38:15.820 not agree with
00:38:16.340 each other.
00:38:17.680 So when
00:38:18.260 Alcindor,
00:38:20.060 Yamiche,
00:38:20.840 Alcindor,
00:38:21.600 I think she's
00:38:22.080 NPR,
00:38:23.980 when she
00:38:25.280 asked a
00:38:25.660 question,
00:38:26.560 embedded in
00:38:27.060 the question
00:38:27.480 was the
00:38:27.900 assumption
00:38:28.300 that,
00:38:29.800 or maybe
00:38:30.880 accusation,
00:38:31.820 depending on
00:38:32.160 what you want
00:38:32.440 to call it,
00:38:33.320 that because
00:38:34.320 Biden was a
00:38:35.000 nice guy,
00:38:35.900 that that was
00:38:36.360 what caused,
00:38:37.420 and he was
00:38:38.220 talking nice
00:38:38.880 about immigration,
00:38:39.700 that that
00:38:40.720 caused more
00:38:41.440 immigration.
00:38:43.100 Whereas Rubin
00:38:44.300 tweeted,
00:38:45.020 Yamiche makes
00:38:45.740 the statement
00:38:46.180 unproven,
00:38:47.640 that his words
00:38:48.540 set off the
00:38:49.400 surge.
00:38:50.620 This is
00:38:51.080 factually wrong.
00:38:52.780 Now, Rubin,
00:38:53.480 of course,
00:38:54.080 is not like
00:38:55.320 other journalists.
00:38:57.080 She's a little
00:38:57.820 more of a
00:38:58.500 team player
00:38:59.040 than even
00:39:00.500 people who
00:39:01.000 are team
00:39:01.300 players.
00:39:02.740 But I
00:39:03.200 would say
00:39:03.840 that Biden
00:39:05.960 and his
00:39:07.000 media who
00:39:08.080 are trying to
00:39:08.600 say that the
00:39:09.160 surge is
00:39:09.680 not because
00:39:10.160 of Biden.
00:39:11.100 They did
00:39:11.480 a good
00:39:11.740 job.
00:39:13.000 Now,
00:39:13.640 here was
00:39:14.180 the argument
00:39:14.600 if you
00:39:14.940 haven't heard
00:39:15.300 it.
00:39:15.680 I think
00:39:15.960 you've
00:39:16.120 heard it.
00:39:16.800 That the
00:39:17.480 surge is
00:39:18.080 actually no
00:39:18.580 different than
00:39:19.120 prior years.
00:39:21.180 And that if
00:39:21.660 you add the
00:39:22.820 fact that
00:39:23.400 the coronavirus
00:39:24.900 caused what
00:39:26.600 would have
00:39:27.000 been a
00:39:27.320 surge to
00:39:28.220 not happen
00:39:28.800 last year,
00:39:29.940 that all
00:39:30.240 you're seeing
00:39:30.680 is this
00:39:31.140 year's normal
00:39:31.880 surge plus
00:39:33.300 a little
00:39:33.700 excess surge
00:39:35.180 because people
00:39:35.840 would have
00:39:36.260 come the year
00:39:36.760 before,
00:39:37.240 but they
00:39:37.480 couldn't.
00:39:38.160 So now
00:39:38.500 they're just
00:39:38.840 coming this
00:39:39.280 year.
00:39:39.760 So it's
00:39:40.160 just a
00:39:40.480 big year
00:39:40.860 for surges,
00:39:42.780 but not
00:39:43.640 because of
00:39:44.200 anything.
00:39:44.800 It just
00:39:45.160 would have
00:39:45.500 happened anyway
00:39:46.140 for economic
00:39:46.820 reasons and
00:39:47.760 seasonal reasons
00:39:49.200 and everything.
00:39:50.300 Now,
00:39:50.680 is that
00:39:51.060 true?
00:39:52.780 Is it
00:39:53.260 true?
00:39:54.740 Yeah,
00:39:55.040 I'm seeing in
00:39:55.540 the comments,
00:39:56.000 I see you
00:39:56.380 saying that it's
00:39:56.860 just not
00:39:57.240 true,
00:39:58.380 that the way
00:39:59.080 they're counting
00:39:59.620 it is wrong.
00:40:01.640 If you talk
00:40:02.260 to the migrants,
00:40:03.240 they'll tell you
00:40:04.000 they're coming
00:40:04.420 because of Biden.
00:40:05.280 the interviews
00:40:06.600 I've seen,
00:40:07.600 they say it
00:40:08.180 directly.
00:40:09.060 Would you
00:40:09.460 have come
00:40:09.940 if Trump
00:40:11.500 had still
00:40:11.960 been president?
00:40:13.020 Maybe not.
00:40:14.040 Did you
00:40:14.360 come because
00:40:15.000 Biden said
00:40:15.880 things would
00:40:17.180 be better?
00:40:18.140 Yes.
00:40:19.240 They say it
00:40:19.920 directly.
00:40:21.380 Now,
00:40:23.880 so I'm not
00:40:25.080 saying that
00:40:25.540 Biden is
00:40:26.220 accurate when
00:40:27.100 he defends
00:40:27.620 himself by
00:40:28.200 saying that
00:40:28.580 the surge
00:40:29.040 is no
00:40:29.860 worse,
00:40:30.220 and that
00:40:30.980 he also
00:40:31.300 says that
00:40:32.960 there were
00:40:33.380 facilities in
00:40:34.160 place to
00:40:34.580 handle the
00:40:35.100 surge,
00:40:35.700 that Trump
00:40:36.540 dismantled.
00:40:37.880 That's probably
00:40:38.460 a little bit
00:40:39.020 true.
00:40:40.420 So if you
00:40:40.920 were simply
00:40:41.340 to judge
00:40:43.800 whether Biden
00:40:44.540 defended his
00:40:45.760 practice as
00:40:46.540 well,
00:40:47.160 just rhetorically,
00:40:48.680 he actually
00:40:49.080 did.
00:40:49.920 With the
00:40:50.480 help of the
00:40:50.920 media,
00:40:52.760 and I'm
00:40:53.780 totally
00:40:54.100 surprised,
00:40:55.160 right?
00:40:55.800 I'm totally
00:40:56.340 surprised.
00:40:57.200 And I'm not
00:40:57.800 buying their
00:40:58.600 statistics.
00:40:59.120 I do
00:40:59.820 think it's
00:41:00.260 a real
00:41:00.560 surge that
00:41:01.720 really comes
00:41:02.460 because of
00:41:03.020 Biden.
00:41:03.960 Now,
00:41:04.180 that's a
00:41:04.440 belief,
00:41:05.520 but they
00:41:07.580 did a good
00:41:08.080 job,
00:41:08.660 a good job
00:41:09.980 of defending
00:41:10.640 their situation.
00:41:12.580 You don't
00:41:13.020 have to believe
00:41:13.620 they were
00:41:14.320 being honest,
00:41:15.500 but it was
00:41:16.100 a good
00:41:16.320 defense.
00:41:16.900 I was
00:41:17.100 surprised.
00:41:18.280 It was
00:41:18.700 better than
00:41:19.000 I thought
00:41:19.260 it would
00:41:19.400 be.
00:41:20.160 And even
00:41:20.600 Rubin and
00:41:21.320 Elcindor
00:41:21.960 are on
00:41:22.180 the different
00:41:23.260 sides about
00:41:23.940 whether there
00:41:24.760 was anything
00:41:25.200 to that.
00:41:26.460 All right.
00:41:28.320 There's a
00:41:28.920 weird thing
00:41:29.340 happening in
00:41:29.860 the world
00:41:30.240 with cotton.
00:41:32.400 You know,
00:41:32.980 I've told you
00:41:33.420 that one of
00:41:33.920 the things
00:41:34.180 about this
00:41:34.560 simulation is
00:41:35.520 that there's
00:41:35.880 some themes
00:41:36.600 that once you
00:41:37.500 see them,
00:41:38.020 they just keep
00:41:38.520 repeating,
00:41:39.600 and it could
00:41:40.460 be just a
00:41:40.960 coincidence,
00:41:41.560 probably is,
00:41:42.640 but it's
00:41:42.920 always interesting.
00:41:44.620 So cotton
00:41:45.420 is in the
00:41:46.100 news for all
00:41:47.460 different reasons.
00:41:48.420 So I guess
00:41:48.900 H&M and
00:41:50.020 Nike are
00:41:51.360 being boycotted
00:41:52.200 in China
00:41:52.800 because they've
00:41:54.380 made noise
00:41:55.040 opposing the
00:41:55.940 slave labor
00:41:56.700 that picks the
00:41:57.360 cotton that
00:41:58.380 goes into
00:41:58.800 the products.
00:42:01.040 So American
00:42:03.400 companies are
00:42:04.500 being boycotted,
00:42:05.500 are they both
00:42:05.980 American?
00:42:06.560 H&M?
00:42:07.220 I don't know,
00:42:08.040 are being
00:42:08.400 boycotted for
00:42:09.340 opposing slavery.
00:42:12.780 You know,
00:42:13.040 the Uyghurs,
00:42:13.780 forced labor
00:42:14.320 camps,
00:42:14.740 et cetera,
00:42:15.800 and China's
00:42:16.540 pushing back.
00:42:17.700 They're pro-slavery.
00:42:19.540 And so you've
00:42:21.380 got that
00:42:21.700 happening.
00:42:22.640 Then at the
00:42:23.080 same time,
00:42:23.780 you've got
00:42:24.120 Tom Cotton,
00:42:25.280 who's making
00:42:25.820 some news
00:42:26.520 I'll talk
00:42:27.140 about in a
00:42:27.560 moment.
00:42:28.340 And he also
00:42:28.800 talks about
00:42:29.400 China all the
00:42:30.020 time.
00:42:30.560 And then we're
00:42:30.900 also talking
00:42:31.420 about slavery
00:42:32.260 reparations.
00:42:33.620 That's in the
00:42:34.180 news a lot
00:42:35.500 lately, which
00:42:37.140 of course is
00:42:37.740 the legacy of
00:42:38.760 the cotton
00:42:39.700 plantations and
00:42:40.540 everything.
00:42:41.260 Why is it
00:42:41.840 that cotton
00:42:42.500 suddenly became
00:42:44.360 one of the
00:42:45.660 most common
00:42:46.220 words in the
00:42:46.920 news?
00:42:49.120 What's up
00:42:49.800 with that?
00:42:50.980 Speaking of
00:42:51.780 Tom Cotton,
00:42:53.860 I guess he's
00:42:55.200 introducing
00:42:55.640 legislation to
00:42:56.620 ban critical
00:42:58.160 race theory
00:42:58.900 training in
00:42:59.620 the U.S.
00:43:00.100 military.
00:43:01.960 Once again,
00:43:02.980 I say,
00:43:04.020 are there
00:43:04.780 other senators?
00:43:07.080 The only
00:43:07.740 senators you see
00:43:08.620 doing anything,
00:43:09.820 it's like Ted
00:43:10.620 Cruz,
00:43:11.920 Rand Paul,
00:43:13.980 Tom Cotton,
00:43:16.620 and we're
00:43:18.280 done here,
00:43:18.820 right?
00:43:19.820 Is it just the
00:43:20.600 same people doing
00:43:21.380 all the work?
00:43:22.140 I'm not sure
00:43:23.840 I would even
00:43:24.380 consider voting
00:43:26.700 or even
00:43:27.460 supporting,
00:43:28.040 let's say,
00:43:29.020 for a president
00:43:29.740 anybody who
00:43:30.680 isn't one of
00:43:31.220 these people.
00:43:33.260 Josh Hawley's
00:43:34.160 making some
00:43:35.280 noise, yeah,
00:43:36.200 Josh Hawley,
00:43:37.200 but it's just a
00:43:38.300 handful of
00:43:38.740 people.
00:43:39.160 They're doing
00:43:39.360 all the things
00:43:40.560 that matter,
00:43:41.140 it seems like,
00:43:42.040 and everybody
00:43:42.760 else is doing
00:43:43.520 what?
00:43:44.680 What the hell
00:43:45.320 are they doing?
00:43:46.700 What's Rubio
00:43:47.540 done?
00:43:47.920 I'm seeing
00:43:48.280 Rubio's name
00:43:48.940 there.
00:43:49.080 What's he
00:43:49.380 done lately?
00:43:51.040 I don't know.
00:43:52.140 But I
00:43:53.400 would say
00:43:53.860 at the
00:43:54.680 moment,
00:43:55.280 if you
00:43:55.640 were to
00:43:55.940 judge just
00:43:56.600 on who's
00:43:57.540 taking on
00:43:58.960 things and
00:43:59.520 who's introducing
00:44:00.240 legislation and
00:44:01.420 who's moving
00:44:01.940 the needle and
00:44:02.760 who has their
00:44:03.920 priorities right,
00:44:05.980 it's kind of
00:44:06.560 Tom Cotton's
00:44:07.300 looking pretty
00:44:07.760 good.
00:44:08.720 And he's also
00:44:09.360 not making
00:44:10.060 what I'd call
00:44:10.780 the Rand Paul
00:44:11.820 mistake.
00:44:13.600 The Rand Paul
00:44:14.660 mistake is that
00:44:15.360 he's dying on
00:44:16.040 the hill of
00:44:16.500 these face
00:44:17.220 masks.
00:44:17.680 And you
00:44:19.020 just can't
00:44:19.480 win that
00:44:19.920 fight.
00:44:20.940 I mean,
00:44:21.180 he can be
00:44:21.580 right.
00:44:22.460 I'm not
00:44:22.800 arguing he's
00:44:23.420 wrong.
00:44:24.180 I'm just
00:44:24.620 saying it's
00:44:25.320 the kind of
00:44:26.380 fight that's
00:44:26.940 really a bad
00:44:27.640 one if you
00:44:28.180 want to run
00:44:28.640 for president
00:44:29.220 later.
00:44:30.060 Because people
00:44:30.700 are going to
00:44:31.020 remember it,
00:44:31.800 they're going to
00:44:32.160 say you were
00:44:32.800 wrong, you're
00:44:33.660 anti-science,
00:44:34.540 or whatever.
00:44:35.280 But I don't
00:44:35.780 see Tom
00:44:36.300 Cotton even
00:44:36.800 making an
00:44:37.340 issue of it.
00:44:37.960 He's going
00:44:38.340 after, you
00:44:40.040 know, the
00:44:40.600 racism in this
00:44:41.700 country, good.
00:44:43.440 He's going
00:44:44.000 after China
00:44:44.660 really hard.
00:44:46.080 Good.
00:44:47.200 Good stuff.
00:44:49.380 All right.
00:44:53.780 There is, in
00:44:55.000 Oakland, they're
00:44:56.480 doing a program
00:44:57.240 where they're
00:44:57.640 going to give
00:44:58.020 $500 checks to
00:44:59.360 low-income
00:44:59.860 families.
00:45:01.100 So I guess
00:45:02.340 this is like a
00:45:03.080 UBI kind of
00:45:04.000 a thing.
00:45:04.420 I'm not sure
00:45:04.980 how long it's
00:45:06.700 going to go.
00:45:07.660 But there's a
00:45:08.520 restriction to
00:45:09.700 it.
00:45:10.280 So if you're
00:45:11.140 poor, if you're
00:45:12.660 low-income, and
00:45:13.480 in Oakland, you'll
00:45:14.120 get a $500
00:45:14.700 check, unless
00:45:15.740 you're white.
00:45:18.500 So you can't
00:45:19.240 get the check
00:45:19.720 if you're
00:45:20.040 white.
00:45:22.960 Other ethnic
00:45:23.800 groups, I
00:45:24.320 guess, are
00:45:24.860 okay, but
00:45:25.800 not if you're
00:45:26.360 white.
00:45:28.380 And so I'd
00:45:29.160 like to give
00:45:29.480 this financial
00:45:30.060 advice to
00:45:30.600 young people,
00:45:31.380 and I follow
00:45:32.060 my own
00:45:32.440 advice.
00:45:33.700 If you're
00:45:34.280 young, you
00:45:34.900 should definitely
00:45:35.340 hold Bitcoin.
00:45:37.440 Just, you
00:45:38.340 know, even if
00:45:38.860 Bitcoin goes
00:45:39.480 out of business,
00:45:40.540 it looks like it
00:45:41.540 could grow fast
00:45:42.400 in the future.
00:45:42.980 So when
00:45:44.280 you're
00:45:44.460 young, you
00:45:45.080 should get
00:45:45.400 things that
00:45:45.800 are a little
00:45:46.100 riskier, but
00:45:47.280 they could go
00:45:47.900 big, because
00:45:48.780 even if you
00:45:49.240 lose all your
00:45:49.680 money when
00:45:50.020 you're young,
00:45:50.500 you have plenty
00:45:51.340 of time to
00:45:51.780 make it up.
00:45:53.100 So if you're
00:45:53.700 young, you
00:45:54.020 should hold
00:45:54.380 Bitcoin, and
00:45:56.020 then secondly, you
00:45:56.840 should identify
00:45:57.480 as black.
00:45:58.940 And I'm only
00:45:59.700 saying to do
00:46:00.300 it for the
00:46:00.640 money, not for
00:46:01.460 any other
00:46:01.800 reason.
00:46:03.360 And I'm
00:46:03.780 going to
00:46:03.960 announce today
00:46:04.580 that going
00:46:05.600 forward, I do
00:46:06.380 identify as
00:46:07.020 black.
00:46:07.360 And I
00:46:08.700 had my DNA
00:46:10.360 analyzed by
00:46:12.340 23andMe, and
00:46:14.320 I do have
00:46:15.540 origins in
00:46:16.220 Africa.
00:46:17.600 Now, I
00:46:17.920 don't know how
00:46:18.400 much your
00:46:19.520 origins have to
00:46:20.260 be, but I
00:46:21.800 think you just
00:46:22.400 have to identify
00:46:23.100 that way.
00:46:23.800 Those are the
00:46:24.560 rules.
00:46:25.440 Now, I told
00:46:25.940 you that the
00:46:26.700 best way to
00:46:27.340 break a system
00:46:28.140 you don't like
00:46:28.920 is to embrace
00:46:29.640 it.
00:46:30.740 So I embrace
00:46:31.720 it.
00:46:32.420 I do believe
00:46:33.420 that people who
00:46:34.960 don't, let's
00:46:35.600 say, look
00:46:37.240 exactly black
00:46:38.320 can identify
00:46:39.860 as black.
00:46:41.140 Right?
00:46:41.600 Because there
00:46:42.080 are lots of
00:46:42.460 examples of
00:46:43.020 that.
00:46:43.460 There are
00:46:43.620 plenty of
00:46:43.960 people who, if
00:46:45.180 you looked at
00:46:45.860 them, you'd
00:46:46.140 say, I don't
00:46:46.840 know if they're
00:46:47.180 black.
00:46:48.160 You know, just
00:46:48.540 looking at
00:46:49.080 them, I can't
00:46:49.740 tell.
00:46:50.160 But if they
00:46:50.640 identify as
00:46:51.360 black, those
00:46:53.440 are the rules.
00:46:55.020 That you can
00:46:55.520 identify as
00:46:56.180 black, and
00:46:56.780 then you are.
00:46:57.680 So I'm going
00:46:58.320 to identify as
00:46:58.960 black.
00:46:59.360 I've got a
00:46:59.820 little bit of
00:47:00.440 African-American
00:47:01.100 in me, according
00:47:01.760 to 23andMe.
00:47:03.960 And I also
00:47:04.680 have a lived
00:47:05.300 experience, which
00:47:06.600 I think,
00:47:07.240 fits the
00:47:08.960 model.
00:47:10.460 Most of
00:47:11.040 you know the
00:47:11.520 story that when
00:47:12.140 I was working
00:47:12.700 for a big
00:47:13.440 bank early in
00:47:15.100 my career, my
00:47:15.900 boss called
00:47:16.480 me in the
00:47:16.860 office and
00:47:17.300 told me that
00:47:17.780 I couldn't
00:47:18.280 be promoted
00:47:18.800 because I'm
00:47:20.140 white and
00:47:21.060 male.
00:47:22.140 Now, when I
00:47:22.640 tell this story,
00:47:23.340 people say,
00:47:24.020 that didn't
00:47:25.260 happen.
00:47:26.860 Or they
00:47:27.600 say, I think
00:47:30.480 you're making
00:47:30.900 that up.
00:47:31.520 Or they
00:47:32.780 say, maybe
00:47:34.540 you thought
00:47:35.100 that's what
00:47:35.560 was happening,
00:47:36.380 but they
00:47:36.760 certainly
00:47:37.100 wouldn't say
00:47:37.680 it directly.
00:47:39.200 Let me
00:47:39.520 say this as
00:47:40.060 clearly as
00:47:40.520 possible.
00:47:42.020 My boss
00:47:42.880 said it
00:47:43.280 directly.
00:47:45.280 You can't
00:47:46.200 get promoted
00:47:46.760 here because
00:47:48.180 you're white
00:47:48.800 and you're
00:47:50.620 male.
00:47:51.480 Directly.
00:47:52.420 So I
00:47:52.980 quit.
00:47:53.800 Of course.
00:47:55.000 What would
00:47:55.700 you do if
00:47:56.400 your company
00:47:57.360 tells you you
00:47:57.960 can't be
00:47:58.380 promoted because
00:47:59.180 of your
00:47:59.500 gender and
00:48:00.140 your race?
00:48:00.620 You quit.
00:48:01.960 So when
00:48:03.140 that happened,
00:48:04.500 I, of
00:48:05.380 course, had
00:48:05.740 plenty of
00:48:06.140 other opportunities
00:48:06.860 to go to.
00:48:07.580 Things worked
00:48:08.020 out for me.
00:48:09.280 But I
00:48:10.880 did feel for
00:48:11.780 a moment
00:48:12.300 what it
00:48:13.660 would be
00:48:13.920 like to
00:48:15.460 have racial
00:48:16.100 discrimination
00:48:16.860 determine your
00:48:18.000 career options
00:48:19.300 because it
00:48:19.900 literally happened.
00:48:21.340 So I left
00:48:22.000 the bank and
00:48:22.860 I took a job
00:48:23.740 at the local
00:48:24.980 phone company,
00:48:25.680 the Pacific
00:48:26.320 Bell at the
00:48:26.900 time.
00:48:27.420 And I got
00:48:28.120 on the
00:48:28.560 management
00:48:30.980 track.
00:48:32.080 So they
00:48:32.300 had an
00:48:32.520 actual
00:48:32.780 program that
00:48:34.040 if you were
00:48:34.380 identified as
00:48:35.180 somebody who
00:48:35.620 might be able
00:48:36.140 to rise to
00:48:36.700 the ranks,
00:48:37.700 they would put
00:48:38.100 you on the
00:48:38.400 program so
00:48:39.020 that you would
00:48:39.380 get extra
00:48:39.980 mentoring and
00:48:40.640 stuff and
00:48:41.080 people would
00:48:41.420 know who
00:48:41.680 you are.
00:48:42.800 And so I
00:48:43.200 got on the
00:48:43.540 program and
00:48:44.600 it looked like
00:48:45.080 I was going
00:48:45.520 places.
00:48:46.480 Finally.
00:48:47.660 Finally, I
00:48:48.300 could rise based
00:48:49.840 on my skill
00:48:50.660 and not the
00:48:51.960 color of my
00:48:52.580 skin.
00:48:53.920 But one
00:48:54.800 day my
00:48:55.360 boss called
00:48:56.860 me into his
00:48:57.420 office.
00:48:58.560 And again,
00:48:59.480 I'm not
00:49:00.140 making this
00:49:00.700 up.
00:49:01.640 There's no
00:49:02.280 hyperbole
00:49:02.800 here.
00:49:04.080 Told me
00:49:04.560 directly in
00:49:06.300 clean, direct
00:49:07.600 language.
00:49:08.880 I'm afraid we've
00:49:09.720 been told we
00:49:10.440 can't promote
00:49:11.340 white males
00:49:13.860 because we
00:49:16.480 don't have
00:49:16.780 enough diversity
00:49:18.480 in senior
00:49:18.940 management and
00:49:19.980 we'll never get
00:49:20.620 it if we just
00:49:21.240 keep promoting
00:49:21.840 white males.
00:49:22.900 And I said,
00:49:23.700 well, how long
00:49:24.320 is this going
00:49:24.800 to last?
00:49:25.220 And my
00:49:27.160 boss, to
00:49:27.740 his credit,
00:49:28.740 said, I
00:49:29.120 don't know.
00:49:30.300 I don't
00:49:30.620 know.
00:49:31.020 I mean, it's
00:49:31.360 not going to
00:49:31.680 go away soon.
00:49:33.340 I don't
00:49:33.640 know if it
00:49:33.940 ever went
00:49:34.300 away.
00:49:36.540 So two
00:49:37.580 major careers
00:49:38.520 I lost
00:49:40.240 because of
00:49:43.440 my race
00:49:44.000 and my
00:49:45.220 gender.
00:49:46.720 Now, again,
00:49:48.240 before you
00:49:48.900 bring out
00:49:49.300 your tiny
00:49:49.780 violins,
00:49:50.920 white man
00:49:52.920 complaining who
00:49:54.240 went on to
00:49:54.720 get rich
00:49:55.080 easily because
00:49:56.000 he's a white
00:49:56.780 man in
00:49:57.160 America,
00:49:57.680 tiny little
00:50:00.040 violin, I
00:50:01.240 hear you.
00:50:02.160 I hear you.
00:50:03.620 I'm not saying
00:50:04.280 that I didn't
00:50:04.720 have options.
00:50:06.160 Things worked
00:50:06.680 out pretty well
00:50:07.220 for me.
00:50:07.720 I'm not even
00:50:08.260 saying that
00:50:08.920 companies should
00:50:10.420 not work hard
00:50:13.600 for affirmative
00:50:14.140 action.
00:50:14.660 I think they
00:50:15.060 should.
00:50:16.160 And I just
00:50:16.880 happened to be
00:50:17.320 in the wrong
00:50:17.700 place at the
00:50:18.380 wrong time.
00:50:19.660 But I had
00:50:20.980 options.
00:50:22.340 So, again,
00:50:22.940 I'm not
00:50:23.300 complaining in
00:50:24.320 the sense
00:50:24.740 that, you
00:50:25.600 know, oh,
00:50:26.020 my life is
00:50:26.620 over.
00:50:27.060 I don't work
00:50:27.940 that way.
00:50:28.440 I just go
00:50:29.120 where I have
00:50:29.600 opportunity and
00:50:31.380 leave where I
00:50:32.520 don't.
00:50:33.280 I think
00:50:33.760 everybody should
00:50:34.260 do that.
00:50:35.440 And so,
00:50:37.820 I know people
00:50:38.900 think that I'm
00:50:40.080 joking about
00:50:40.740 this or that I
00:50:41.500 say it for a
00:50:42.100 fact or I
00:50:43.240 say it just
00:50:43.660 for persuasion.
00:50:44.920 But when I
00:50:45.900 say I know
00:50:47.960 what it feels
00:50:48.520 like to lose
00:50:50.860 a job because
00:50:53.000 of your race
00:50:54.040 or your
00:50:55.300 gender, I
00:50:56.320 literally know
00:50:57.180 what that
00:50:57.540 feels like.
00:50:59.040 Twice.
00:51:00.600 And these are
00:51:01.040 major careers.
00:51:02.060 This wasn't I
00:51:03.520 took a job,
00:51:04.340 you know, as a
00:51:04.940 bagger at the
00:51:05.560 grocery store for
00:51:06.380 a year and it
00:51:07.040 didn't work out.
00:51:08.260 Both of these
00:51:09.040 were supposed to
00:51:09.760 be my career.
00:51:12.420 And I was
00:51:13.460 bumped out.
00:51:14.160 So, that's
00:51:19.480 it.
00:51:19.680 So, I
00:51:19.900 identify as
00:51:20.500 black going
00:51:21.220 forward.
00:51:21.740 I would
00:51:22.040 encourage all
00:51:23.200 of you to do
00:51:23.660 the same.
00:51:25.640 I'm not
00:51:26.220 kidding, by
00:51:26.640 the way.
00:51:27.940 I'm not
00:51:28.540 kidding.
00:51:30.760 Just in case
00:51:31.460 you thought I
00:51:31.920 was, I'm
00:51:33.120 not.
00:51:35.140 Pelosi was
00:51:36.040 making some
00:51:36.720 news today,
00:51:38.180 you know, I
00:51:38.780 guess the last
00:51:39.340 few days, and
00:51:39.980 she says, is
00:51:40.820 it right as a
00:51:41.660 speaker, she
00:51:42.160 says, to
00:51:43.120 seat or
00:51:43.660 unseat any
00:51:44.340 member of
00:51:44.820 Congress she
00:51:45.380 wants, even
00:51:47.280 if the
00:51:47.620 election is
00:51:48.120 certified.
00:51:49.700 Now, a lot
00:51:50.160 of people are
00:51:50.600 saying, doesn't
00:51:52.040 that make you
00:51:52.740 sort of the
00:51:53.660 empress of the
00:51:54.800 country?
00:51:55.480 But I guess
00:51:56.060 she is.
00:51:56.900 But the
00:51:57.220 interesting part
00:51:57.820 is you have
00:51:58.200 to see her
00:51:58.600 video talking
00:51:59.280 about that.
00:52:00.420 Because I
00:52:01.720 don't know what
00:52:02.280 she's done
00:52:02.740 recently,
00:52:04.180 cosmetically,
00:52:06.020 but her
00:52:06.820 eyebrows are
00:52:07.780 trying to
00:52:08.260 escape her
00:52:08.960 mouth area,
00:52:10.220 and they just
00:52:11.060 keep getting
00:52:11.480 higher on her
00:52:12.140 head until I
00:52:13.460 think the
00:52:13.820 eyebrows and
00:52:14.540 the hairline
00:52:15.140 have just
00:52:15.500 become one.
00:52:17.380 And I
00:52:18.360 think we
00:52:19.120 may see
00:52:19.620 other portions
00:52:21.780 of her
00:52:22.220 face, likewise
00:52:23.960 trying to
00:52:24.560 escape the
00:52:25.440 mouth area,
00:52:26.460 because the
00:52:27.080 things that
00:52:27.440 come out of
00:52:27.820 her mouth are
00:52:28.340 pretty scary.
00:52:29.680 And if I
00:52:30.140 were her
00:52:30.480 eyebrows, I
00:52:31.140 would make
00:52:31.860 a run.
00:52:32.460 I'd make a
00:52:33.000 run for it.
00:52:33.960 If I were
00:52:34.360 the ears, I'd
00:52:35.260 try to get
00:52:35.700 around to the
00:52:36.680 back a little
00:52:37.240 bit.
00:52:37.960 If I were
00:52:38.120 the nose, I
00:52:38.820 don't know.
00:52:39.900 The nose is
00:52:40.440 going to be
00:52:40.660 hard.
00:52:40.940 If I'm the
00:52:41.260 eyes, I might
00:52:41.820 want to try to
00:52:42.560 keep them
00:52:42.860 closed.
00:52:43.980 But you
00:52:44.440 want to get
00:52:44.740 as far away
00:52:45.500 as you can
00:52:45.940 from this
00:52:46.280 mouthful area.
00:52:49.020 And the
00:52:49.420 eyebrows are
00:52:50.100 leading the
00:52:50.600 pack.
00:52:51.220 All right.
00:52:52.160 So,
00:52:53.440 that is my
00:53:00.240 show for the
00:53:00.800 day, unless I
00:53:01.780 can think of
00:53:02.280 something right
00:53:02.900 now.
00:53:03.260 wait, Princeton
00:53:08.540 are you
00:53:09.200 kidding me?
00:53:10.140 Princeton
00:53:10.540 University
00:53:11.140 President
00:53:12.400 Christopher
00:53:13.300 Eisgruber,
00:53:14.340 somebody in
00:53:14.740 the comments
00:53:15.160 is saying,
00:53:15.920 is promoting
00:53:16.520 the fine
00:53:16.920 people hoax.
00:53:18.820 Princeton?
00:53:20.920 I have a
00:53:21.840 friend from
00:53:22.260 Princeton who
00:53:22.860 believes all
00:53:23.400 the hoaxes.
00:53:24.820 He graduated
00:53:25.520 from Princeton,
00:53:27.140 believes every
00:53:28.020 hoax.
00:53:28.980 There is not a
00:53:29.720 hoax he doesn't
00:53:30.440 believe.
00:53:30.960 And believe me,
00:53:31.580 you can't talk
00:53:32.200 him out of it.
00:53:33.260 So,
00:53:34.120 Princeton's got a
00:53:34.820 problem.
00:53:36.560 Princeton's got a
00:53:37.380 problem.
00:53:44.400 What's happening
00:53:45.240 this weekend?
00:53:46.960 Somebody asked.
00:53:49.180 All right.
00:53:49.720 I'm going to
00:53:50.140 turn off
00:53:50.680 Periscope,
00:53:53.000 and I will
00:53:54.580 talk to you
00:53:55.320 later.
00:53:58.540 All right,
00:53:59.320 YouTubers,
00:53:59.880 because you're
00:54:00.420 special at the
00:54:01.400 moment.
00:54:03.260 you're asking
00:54:06.700 what,
00:54:07.000 somebody asked
00:54:07.540 what years
00:54:08.120 my career
00:54:09.200 was scuttled.
00:54:09.880 Yeah,
00:54:10.020 that was
00:54:10.340 80s.
00:54:12.480 Correct.
00:54:13.300 80s and
00:54:13.820 early 90s.
00:54:16.080 Late 80s,
00:54:16.940 early 90s,
00:54:17.540 actually.
00:54:22.560 Big
00:54:22.920 foots are
00:54:24.000 real,
00:54:25.500 somebody says.
00:54:27.860 Start hanging
00:54:28.600 out with Bill
00:54:29.160 Maher.
00:54:29.500 I don't think
00:54:30.880 Bill Maher
00:54:31.300 wants to
00:54:31.680 hang out
00:54:31.980 with me.
00:54:32.740 You know,
00:54:33.020 I was on
00:54:33.640 his show,
00:54:35.040 and let's
00:54:37.320 just say
00:54:37.800 we didn't
00:54:41.620 have chemistry.
00:54:42.240 I'll just
00:54:43.920 say that.
00:54:47.700 But he was
00:54:48.360 in a hurry.
00:54:48.920 He had to
00:54:49.180 get somewhere
00:54:49.600 after the
00:54:50.020 show.
00:54:50.460 So he
00:54:50.860 just came
00:54:51.640 in,
00:54:51.840 did the
00:54:52.040 show,
00:54:52.260 and ran.
00:54:53.020 We didn't
00:54:53.540 really chat.
00:54:57.520 Oh,
00:54:57.940 yeah.
00:54:58.760 You know,
00:54:59.380 I somewhat
00:55:00.340 missed the
00:55:01.700 details.
00:55:02.600 There's some
00:55:03.020 kind of story
00:55:03.640 about Hunter
00:55:04.960 Biden,
00:55:06.740 what was it,
00:55:07.380 his girlfriend
00:55:07.960 threw away
00:55:08.740 his handgun
00:55:09.540 in a trash
00:55:10.420 can by a
00:55:11.140 school.
00:55:12.240 And then
00:55:12.860 there was
00:55:13.240 maybe a
00:55:13.740 form that
00:55:14.200 he filled
00:55:14.500 out when
00:55:14.860 he got
00:55:15.180 it that
00:55:15.520 he lied
00:55:16.000 on,
00:55:17.820 and maybe
00:55:18.240 he should
00:55:18.500 go to
00:55:18.760 jail.
00:55:20.920 I don't
00:55:24.960 know what
00:55:25.240 to say
00:55:25.560 about that
00:55:25.980 story.
00:55:26.460 It isn't
00:55:26.860 big enough
00:55:27.480 to matter.
00:55:28.960 It's just
00:55:29.420 one guy
00:55:30.220 with a
00:55:30.520 problem.
00:55:33.120 Would
00:55:33.560 like to
00:55:33.880 see another
00:55:34.180 conversation
00:55:34.780 with you
00:55:35.300 and Sam
00:55:35.860 Harris.
00:55:36.320 Wouldn't
00:55:36.480 that be
00:55:36.780 interesting?
00:55:37.660 Wouldn't
00:55:37.840 that be
00:55:38.120 interesting?
00:55:38.960 Yeah.
00:55:40.220 I'm not
00:55:40.840 doing any
00:55:41.280 media right
00:55:41.780 now,
00:55:42.020 so I
00:55:42.380 wouldn't
00:55:42.520 do it
00:55:42.740 right away.
00:55:43.860 But at
00:55:44.980 some point
00:55:45.380 when I
00:55:45.660 start doing
00:55:46.060 media again,
00:55:48.100 that would
00:55:48.620 be an
00:55:48.860 interesting
00:55:49.180 conversation.
00:55:49.960 I'd love
00:55:50.220 to catch
00:55:50.780 up with
00:55:51.120 him.
00:55:51.640 Because the
00:55:52.300 fun thing
00:55:52.740 about Sam
00:55:54.200 Harris is
00:55:55.880 that he's
00:55:56.500 super smart
00:55:57.180 and well
00:55:57.640 informed.
00:55:59.080 So if you
00:55:59.860 disagree with
00:56:00.560 somebody who's
00:56:01.140 super smart
00:56:01.800 and well
00:56:02.220 informed,
00:56:03.340 that's just
00:56:03.860 always fun.
00:56:05.700 Maybe you'll
00:56:06.360 learn something
00:56:06.800 watching that.
00:56:07.340 All right.
00:56:11.900 Oh, there's
00:56:12.620 a bigger
00:56:12.940 story about
00:56:13.400 the Secret
00:56:13.780 Service,
00:56:14.600 et cetera,
00:56:15.020 with the
00:56:15.240 Hunter story.
00:56:15.920 Okay.
00:56:17.600 Got it.
00:56:21.360 And yes,
00:56:22.100 as people
00:56:22.540 said, if
00:56:23.240 that had
00:56:23.640 been Don
00:56:24.120 Jr.
00:56:24.560 instead of
00:56:24.980 Hunter, it
00:56:25.440 would be a
00:56:25.720 whole different
00:56:26.100 story.
00:56:26.620 Yeah, we
00:56:26.900 all agree
00:56:27.300 with that.
00:56:28.320 But there's
00:56:28.900 also, you
00:56:29.660 know, the
00:56:29.860 differences if
00:56:31.480 you're pro-gun
00:56:32.100 or not.
00:56:32.500 So it
00:56:32.700 wouldn't be
00:56:32.960 exactly a
00:56:33.600 good analogy.
00:56:40.420 Yeah, lying
00:56:41.260 on a gun
00:56:41.740 purchase is a
00:56:42.480 felony.
00:56:43.320 It probably
00:56:44.380 should be a
00:56:44.880 pretty big
00:56:45.280 one, don't
00:56:45.700 you think,
00:56:46.480 as felonies
00:56:47.220 go?
00:56:48.200 But wouldn't
00:56:49.040 it be
00:56:49.280 interesting if
00:56:50.020 his defense
00:56:50.780 was that the
00:56:52.180 Constitution
00:56:52.780 allows him to
00:56:53.440 own a gun?
00:56:55.940 Imagine if he
00:56:56.680 said, yes, I
00:56:57.760 admit I did
00:56:58.380 lie on this
00:56:59.020 forum, because
00:56:59.700 that's probably
00:57:00.280 going to be
00:57:00.560 easy to prove,
00:57:01.820 but I lied
00:57:02.520 on this forum
00:57:03.080 because I
00:57:03.720 have a
00:57:03.940 Second Amendment
00:57:04.440 right to
00:57:05.080 own a gun
00:57:05.540 and your
00:57:05.960 forum can't
00:57:06.560 stop me from
00:57:07.120 my Second
00:57:07.740 Amendment
00:57:08.040 right.
00:57:09.340 Would that
00:57:09.920 work?
00:57:11.180 That would
00:57:11.500 be interesting.
00:57:15.380 Somebody says
00:57:16.140 it's automatic
00:57:16.840 jail.
00:57:18.040 I don't know.
00:57:19.380 I'd like to
00:57:20.100 know how
00:57:21.000 they go.
00:57:21.340 Oh, I
00:57:21.540 didn't do
00:57:21.880 the Clubhouse
00:57:22.780 event.
00:57:23.720 I postponed
00:57:25.120 that again.
00:57:26.340 I'm just
00:57:26.700 having a
00:57:27.120 little bit
00:57:27.600 of a
00:57:27.880 scheduling
00:57:28.320 problem with
00:57:30.120 me and my
00:57:31.160 guests being
00:57:31.740 available to
00:57:32.500 the same
00:57:32.760 time.
00:57:34.900 The one
00:57:35.400 thing I
00:57:35.680 like about
00:57:36.060 Clubhouse is
00:57:36.700 you just
00:57:37.000 jump on and
00:57:37.600 do it.
00:57:38.380 You don't
00:57:38.700 have to
00:57:39.000 schedule.
00:57:41.880 So here's
00:57:42.640 a little
00:57:43.040 thing that
00:57:43.420 just happened
00:57:43.920 in my
00:57:44.300 neighborhood.
00:57:46.100 And this
00:57:48.580 tells you how
00:57:49.380 weird the
00:57:50.040 world is right
00:57:50.640 now, because
00:57:51.340 there's a bunch
00:57:51.780 of people who
00:57:52.180 got rich during
00:57:53.560 the pandemic.
00:57:54.620 At the same
00:57:55.080 time, a whole
00:57:55.520 bunch of
00:57:55.840 people lost
00:57:56.400 everything.
00:57:57.620 So it was
00:57:58.740 this weird
00:57:59.220 situation where
00:58:00.140 some people were
00:58:00.760 doing great,
00:58:01.440 while other
00:58:01.740 people were
00:58:02.220 just getting
00:58:03.420 hit hard.
00:58:05.300 But one of
00:58:05.740 the things that
00:58:06.080 happened is
00:58:06.480 where I live,
00:58:07.400 I'm outside of
00:58:08.280 San Francisco.
00:58:09.560 And I'm
00:58:10.160 outside of all
00:58:10.860 the bad parts
00:58:11.600 of San
00:58:11.980 Francisco.
00:58:12.760 Like everything
00:58:13.240 that's bad
00:58:13.840 about San
00:58:14.480 Francisco, the
00:58:15.180 city, I'm
00:58:16.600 just outside
00:58:17.540 that, because
00:58:18.120 I'm in the
00:58:18.520 suburbs outside.
00:58:20.020 And so as
00:58:20.760 people left
00:58:21.380 the city, they
00:58:23.060 came here.
00:58:24.660 There's a
00:58:25.220 2,300-square-foot
00:58:27.120 home around
00:58:28.260 the corner
00:58:28.760 that just
00:58:30.900 sold for
00:58:33.200 half a
00:58:33.780 million dollars
00:58:34.360 over the
00:58:34.840 asking price.
00:58:38.500 What?
00:58:40.060 One before
00:58:40.920 that just
00:58:41.360 sold for
00:58:41.760 $400,000
00:58:42.980 over the
00:58:45.040 asking price.
00:58:47.040 And there
00:58:47.720 are almost
00:58:48.400 no homes
00:58:48.960 that are
00:58:49.140 even available
00:58:49.780 to buy
00:58:50.240 here.
00:58:50.680 And the
00:58:50.900 reason is
00:58:51.340 that all
00:58:51.600 the city
00:58:53.060 and the
00:58:54.420 valley people,
00:58:55.740 once they
00:58:56.820 could work
00:58:57.360 remotely, as
00:58:59.360 soon as you
00:58:59.900 could work
00:59:00.620 remotely, they
00:59:02.140 came to my
00:59:02.720 town, because
00:59:03.160 this is the
00:59:03.680 perfect place
00:59:04.300 to work
00:59:04.680 remotely.
00:59:05.820 And there
00:59:06.340 are people
00:59:06.660 who sold
00:59:07.180 homes that
00:59:07.700 were worth
00:59:08.140 whatever
00:59:08.780 millions in
00:59:09.780 the city
00:59:10.540 or in the
00:59:11.060 valley.
00:59:11.960 And they
00:59:12.640 had tons
00:59:13.140 of money
00:59:13.460 because they
00:59:13.840 sold their
00:59:14.240 homes.
00:59:15.760 And then
00:59:16.280 they came
00:59:16.680 here and
00:59:17.820 raised all
00:59:18.560 of our
00:59:18.820 prices.
00:59:19.640 But have
00:59:20.000 you ever
00:59:20.320 heard of
00:59:20.640 that?
00:59:21.600 Have you
00:59:21.940 heard of
00:59:22.300 multiple
00:59:22.760 homes selling
00:59:24.180 for half
00:59:24.820 a million
00:59:25.200 dollars over
00:59:25.940 the asking
00:59:26.580 price?
00:59:27.460 Now, we're
00:59:27.760 only talking
00:59:28.220 about a
00:59:28.460 home that
00:59:28.760 was selling,
00:59:29.380 I think it
00:59:29.820 was listed
00:59:30.260 for 2.2
00:59:32.820 million.
00:59:34.340 We're not
00:59:35.020 talking about
00:59:35.600 like a
00:59:36.380 $50 million
00:59:37.040 home that
00:59:37.680 sold for
00:59:38.040 half a
00:59:38.400 million over
00:59:38.780 the asking
00:59:39.120 price.
00:59:39.820 It was
00:59:40.220 listed for
00:59:40.740 2.2
00:59:41.540 and sold
00:59:42.580 for 2.7.
00:59:45.860 And 2.2
00:59:47.060 was a market
00:59:48.420 comp.
00:59:49.560 It sold for
00:59:50.260 half a million
00:59:51.000 dollars over
00:59:51.740 the comps
00:59:52.660 for the
00:59:53.520 neighborhood.
00:59:54.220 I mean,
00:59:54.660 that's just
00:59:55.080 crazy.
00:59:56.280 All right,
00:59:56.540 so that's
00:59:56.820 what's going
00:59:57.140 on in my
00:59:57.520 neighborhood.
00:59:59.420 Unfortunately,
00:59:59.880 I'm not
01:00:00.100 selling my
01:00:00.500 house.
01:00:00.820 It would
01:00:00.980 have been a
01:00:01.240 good time
01:00:01.540 to do it.
01:00:02.220 I will
01:00:02.520 talk to
01:00:02.840 you later.
01:00:03.760 more.
01:00:12.820 тебе
01:00:13.780 have been a
01:00:14.760 good time
01:00:15.000 of
01:00:15.440 day.